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How Long Can a Virus 鈥淟ive鈥 Outside the Body?

8 Apr 2020

One of the frequently asked questions about the SARS-CoV-2 virus is how long the virus can live outside the body. 鈥淟ive鈥 is not exactly the appropriate term, as聽viruses are not really "alive"...

Infection by a Virus Can Sometimes be Useful

18 Mar 2020

Even before the panic due to COVID-19, 鈥渧irus鈥 was a scary term. That鈥檚 because we have all had some sort of battle with a virus and the experience was not enjoyable. However, there are times when...

How Do We Rapidly Test for COVID-19?

12 Mar 2020

There鈥檚 a lot of talk about testing for the new coronavirus and how testing kits are in short supply in certain areas. But what few people explain is what is inside this mystery box. How are...

The Costly Reprogramming of the Immune System to Fight off Cancer

18 Oct 2019

Alternative medicine, with its universal boogeymen and safe panaceas, gives us a simplistic (and wrong) view of the world. Medicine, on the other hand, often demands that we make tough choices....

The Man Who Photocopied DNA and Also Saw a Talking Fluorescent Raccoon

15 Aug 2019

It may be surprising to learn that the credited inventor of the most important workhorse in molecular biology鈥攖he polymerase chain reaction or PCR鈥攐nce claimed he had seen a talking fluorescent...

Are You There, Race? It鈥檚 Me, DNA

9 Aug 2019

What would you say is Liam Neeson鈥檚 race?...

ThetaHealing庐: The Money You鈥檒l Spend Never Existed

1 Aug 2019

It must have looked like they were testing for telepathy. One self-described healer and their patient, sitting face to face, were each wearing what I would describe as a rugby helmet covered in...

Ambiguous Genetics Invite Woo

18 Jul 2019

If you could know every letter in your DNA, would you be better off?...

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