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Edward Holmes does not like making predictions, but last year he hazarded a few. Again and again, people had asked Holmes, an expert on...

“Now is a critical time,” Israeli Minister of Health Nitzan Horowitz said as the 56-year-old got a COVID-19 booster shot on 13 August,...

If any group understands the toll misinformation can take on the public understanding of science, it’s climate scientists. For years,...

Lineage B.1.617.2, now known as the Delta variant, was first detected in India, in December, 2020. An evolved version of sars-CoV-2,...

According to analysts and researchers alike, so-called super-antibodies such as sotrovimab should have an edge over first-generation...

Emulating the human lung airway in vitro identified the SARS-CoV2-inhibiting effects of the antimalarial drug amodiaquine, which is now...

The data is still not in on whether booster shots against COVID-19 will be necessary. The disease has only been around for slightly over...

Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to new research...

The latest variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus, dubbed B.1.617, was first found in India and then in other countries around the world. It...

As variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge and spread around the globe, experts have been concerned about how they will...

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it supports waiving intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines, saying...

MIT researchers have developed a publicly available model based on physics and data from past spreading events. Two MIT professors have...

Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug approved in the United States for treating COVID-19 patients, is up to 10 times more effective when...

TOWARD THE END of last year, doctors in Nelson Mandela Bay, a city of about 1 million people in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, started...

The door to summer is slowly creaking open in Europe, and for those who want to stroll through it to take a vacation amid ongoing Covid...

As with real estate, location matters greatly for cells. Douglas Strand confirmed that truth last year when he used a new technique to...

An orangutan named Karen, the first in the world to have open-heart surgery in 1994, has made medical history again: She’s among the...

Like millions of people in the United States last year, Stanley Plotkin and his wife got vaccinated against influenza at the start of the...

The first two COVID vaccines approved in the U.S. both use first-of-a-kind technology called messenger RNA. Johnson & Johnson’s new...

A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy. The dogs are conditioned to scent out the...