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Do you want to borrow some antibodies?
How one Covid-19 patient's antibodies became a powerful, mass-produced drug to save others.
Roxanne Khamsi
Jan 28, 2021
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The future of PCR testing
From a tape-based approach that speeds up results to solar-powered devices, testing for viruses is about to become radically different.
Roxanne Khamsi
Feb 17
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Scary news about Covid—with a happy ending
The virus is a master of swapping its genes to mutate. But this could be its Achilles' heel.
Roxanne Khamsi
Feb 5, 2021
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The 'strange' blood clots in Covid-19 aren't so odd
I found more than a century of research showing strokes liked to infectious diseases
Roxanne Khamsi
May 7, 2020
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Inside the debate over how long Covid-19 lasts in the body
An Antarctic expedition in the 1960s hints that respiratory viruses can linger inside us longer than we think
Roxanne Khamsi
Jul 28, 2020
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A totally new way to test for infection
PCR, rapid antigen tests and antibody tests have made headlines, but there's a different method to spot infections, and it might detect them earlier.
Roxanne Khamsi
Jan 6
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Double trouble and the 'Force of Infection'
Listen to a discussion about an overlooked pandemic phenomenon, and read about how we catch multiple viruses simultaneously.
Roxanne Khamsi
Nov 22, 2021
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Clioepidemiology and COVID-19
Why we should listen to the experts on the SARS 2003 outbreak and think about vaccine manufacturing scale-up now — rather than later.
Roxanne Khamsi
Apr 14, 2020
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The COVID risks hiding in our DNA
Many people don't realize they have genetic mutations that make them immunocompromised.
Roxanne Khamsi
Oct 6, 2021
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More evidence piles up for 'rogue antibodies' in Covid-19
“It should make us rethink dozens of diseases, if not hundreds,” according to scientists.
Roxanne Khamsi
Jan 19, 2021
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The sharpened theories behind vaccine-related clots
Scientists have a better picture about why these rare blood abnormalities might arise—but they don't yet have a consensus.
Roxanne Khamsi
Apr 16, 2021
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What toxic shock might teach us about kids and Covid
Scientists have found strong similarities between a fatal tampon-related condition and the molecular hallmarks of a complication of the coronavirus.
Roxanne Khamsi
Jul 16, 2021
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