A few dozen human genes rapidly evolved in ancient East Asia to thwart coronavirus infections, scientists say. Those genes could be crucial to today’s pandemic.
An extremely common microbe can stop the insects from spreading the virus that causes dengue fever.
That alarms us. Because in medicine, nearly everything we do is based on evidence. And the evidence that is weighed most heavily are the data published in our field’s top journals.
Gig economy companies were not true pioneers. The truth behind their dominance is their aggressive market takeovers, aided by their precarious labor model. The piece wage’s effect is to induce workers to toil longer and harder for less.
A metal recycling plant is due to open on the polluted Southeast Side months after the same firm shut a metal scrapyard in a white, affluent part of town
The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad.
Coronavirus shortages prompt a foodie to reflect on 50 years of change
Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.
The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus.
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