First patients to get CRISPR gene-editing treatment continue to thrive
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Genghis Khan may have been killed by a pandemic
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Experimental compound revives memory in Alzheimer’s disease mice
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How New York City vaccinated six million people in less than a month
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Team behind Oxford Covid jab start final stage of malaria vaccine trials
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain
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Joseph Goldberger’s filth parties: A crusading doctor’s stomach-churning efforts to beat back pellagra in the American South
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How to think like an epidemiologist
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Researchers say they have found the world's earliest confirmed case of smallpox, revealing the disease was widespread across northern Europe during the Viking age
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The girl who turned to bone
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Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
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Coronavirus: This is not the last pandemic
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Coronavirus may be a blood vessel disease, which explains everything
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The Hongerwinter: How famine under the Nazis revealed the cause of celiac disease
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A Javanese dish to banish the plague
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Iceland has a record of its people's ancestry going back 1,000 years – it's given the country an advantage into understanding the genetic makeup of coronavirus
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Smallpox and the long road to eradication
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Warnings of worsening hunger, malaria emerge as coronavirus cases spike 40% in Africa
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How one man poisoned a city’s water supply (and saved millions of children’s lives in the process)
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The devastating decline of Lee Holloway, one of the co-founders of Cloudflare
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How infectious disease defined the American bathroom
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Why measles deaths are surging — and coronavirus could make it worse
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As with any other poison, viruses are usually deadlier in larger amounts
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What we need to understand about asymptomatic carriers if we’re going to beat the coronavirus
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What Shakespeare actually did during the plague
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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When it comes to the pandemic, scared is good
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Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’
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How the 1957 flu pandemic was stopped early in its path
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What we know so far about SARS-CoV-2
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Coronavirus: The hammer and the dance
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Yes, young people are falling seriously ill from Covid-19
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Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic?
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Iran faces catastrophic death toll from coronavirus
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The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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How testing for Covid-19 works
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New England Journal of Medicine study shows SARS-CoV-2 is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces
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Outbreak - Simplified simulations of a disease outbreak with tweakable parameters (like transmission and mortality rates) to show how epidemics can unfold
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Eating animals will be the death of us
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
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'I'm aware I could die, but you can't live in fear': Living with cancer amid coronavirus
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Coronavirus: Why you must act now
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Coronavirus FAQ’s by Dr. Megan Murray (Harvard Infectious Disease specialist)
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Denmark shuts down schools and universities to fight coronavirus pandemic
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Coronavirus prompts Harvard, MIT to send students home
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COVID-19 is such a threat because some of our best weapons against disease don't work on it
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UK Chief Medical Officer answers coronavirus questions from MPs
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Hong Kong’s coronavirus response leads to sharp drop in flu cases
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