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Chris Baraniuk

Articles by Chris Baraniuk

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Can Animals Get Covid and Should They Be Vaccinated?

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Ancient Mesopotamians Bred Horselike Hybrids

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Kelp Pathogen Has Spread Across the Southern Ocean

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Will Delaying Vaccine Doses Cause a Coronavirus Escape Mutant?

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The Push to Deploy At-Home Antigen Tests for COVID-19

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Does the Common Cold Protect You from COVID-19?

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The Search for Immune Responses that Stop COVID-19

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Bubonic Plague Cases Are No Cause for Panic

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Estimates Vary Widely for Number of Wuhan COVID-19 Cases in January

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Researchers in Brazil Struggle to Get Solid COVID-19 Death Counts

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Countries Begin Large-Scale Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Sewage

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Receptors for SARS-CoV-2 Present in Wide Variety of Human Cells

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Scientists Scan for Weaknesses in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

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Chloroquine for COVID-19: Cutting Through the Hype

July Digest 2025
July 2025, Issue 1

What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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