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What Does a Positive Covid Test Look Like?

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Q&A: What if Immune Cells Don’t Actually Detect Viruses and Bacteria?

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Q&A: Gathering Diverse Microbiome Samples

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New NAS Awards Honor Science Communication in “Post-Truth World”

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Most Archaea and Bacteria Are Nameless. SeqCode Could Change That

Dan Robitzski | | 8 min read

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It’s Not Just You: Lockdowns Had Us Living in “Blursday,” Study Says

Dan Robitzski | | 6 min read

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Can Taking a Test Now Tell You if You’ve Already Had COVID-19?

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Q&A: Whole Genomes of 150,000 Britons Reveal Novel Genetic Variants

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Same Parts of the Brain Control Processing of Dozens of Languages

Andy Carstens | | 4 min read

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Gone but Not Forgotten: Retracted COVID-19 Papers Still Cited

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Banking Previous Poos: Could a Transplant of Feces from Your Past Heal You?

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Monkeypox: What We Know (and What We Don’t)

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Spilling the Tea: Insect DNA Shows Up in World’s Top Beverage

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Oust the Mouse: A Plan to Reduce Mammal Use in Drug Development

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Q&A: A Randomized Approach to Awarding Grants

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