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Review: In Pranay Lal’s ‘Invisible Empire’, the Virus Is Part of Nature’s Balance

Shahid Jameel 01/02/2022

Virologist Shahid Jameel reviews Pranay Lal's new book on...

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senate hearing on plan to research, manufacture and distribute coronavirus vaccine, on Capitol Hill in Washington

Mutations: Does SARS-CoV-2 Have a Fixed Number of Moves in Its Arsenal?

Kate Kelland and Julie Steenhuysen 05/04/2021

The idea that the virus could have a limited...

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Seasonal Influenza: The Challenges of Selecting a Vaccine Strain

Amanda C. Perofsky and Martha I. Nelson 16/11/2020

New measures of influenza virus fitness could improve vaccine...

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Could the Novel Coronavirus Evolve To Become Less Deadly?

Wendy Orent 13/11/2020

Like plague, COVID-19 is a stealth infection, and that...

Learning lessons from the first wave: An ICU in Seine-Saint-Denis braces for coronavirus surge

With a Trickle of COVID-19 Reinfections in India + Worldwide, Where’s the Science?

Joel P. Joseph 17/09/2020

On September 15, researchers in Greater Noida and New...

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Why the Mutation That Made SARS-CoV-2 More Infective Isn’t That Big a Deal

Arun Panchapakesan 11/09/2020

The chances that a vaccine will not work due...

COVID19: Lockdown in Lucknow

The Novel Coronavirus Story so Far, From Virology’s Point of View

Yinon M. Bar-On, Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips and Ron Milo 22/05/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has made brutally clear the need...