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- Meet the woman who labored for years on the technology underpinning Pfizer and Moderna's mRNA coronavirus vaccines. Many scientists thought her ideas were unworkable. But a few saw real possibilities.
- A molecular biologist, Flossie Wong-Staal helped establish H.I.V. as the cause of AIDS, then cloned it and took it apart to understand how it evades the immune system. She has died at 73.
- Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their work on cancer immunotherapy. Here's a visual explanation for how immunotherapy works: nyti.ms/2Ne7wEe
- Breaking News: The U.S. now has more coronavirus cases than any other nation in the world, according to data gathered by @nytimes
- The W.H.O. agrees the coronavirus is airborne indoors, and people should avoid crowded and confined spaces with poor ventilation.
- Roughly a third of the unvaccinated population said a cash payment would make them more likely to get a shot.
- Racing against time, the surgeon injected a billion mitochondria into the baby's damaged heart muscle. Within two days, the baby had a normal heart, strong and beating quickly. “It was amazing,”
- HPV vaccines are so effective that cervical cancer could ultimately be eliminated, a new study finds.
- HPV vaccines are so effective that cervical cancer could ultimately be eliminated, a new study finds.
- Parents’ resistance to Covid shots has splashed onto longstanding school immunizations, with almost a third saying they should have the right to decide for their children, a new survey shows.
- An hour of running may add seven hours to your life
- Want to live longer? Try going to the opera. Researchers in Britain have found that people who reported going to a museum or concert even once a year lived longer than those who didn’t.
- Bill Jenkins was a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism and unfairness in health outcomes. He has died at 73.
