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The Anti-Vaccine Nuclear Option That Could End Vaccination Programs on January 20, 2025

The Anti-Vaccine Nuclear Option That Could End Vaccination Programs on January 20, 2025

I’m not saying it’s going to happen, but it could. So the time to prepare is now.
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Uncoiling Your DNA: What Cells Teach Us About Breaking Free from Stability

Uncoiling Your DNA: What Cells Teach Us About Breaking Free from Stability

Stability might be stalling your progress
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The One Alternative View
Channel Your Inner Dr. House and Solve This Medical Mystery With Me From My Days as a Lab Tech

Channel Your Inner Dr. House and Solve This Medical Mystery With Me From My Days as a Lab Tech

Work with pigs? Afraid of fluoride? Then read this!
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René F. Najera, MPH, DrPH
Success Of Racehorses Improves With Greater Gut Microbiome Diversity

Success Of Racehorses Improves With Greater Gut Microbiome Diversity

The future success and long-term health of a racehorse can be diagnosed by the diversity of its gut microbiome when it’s just one month…
Go to the profile of 𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist
𝐆𝐫𝐫𝐥𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, scientist & journalist
Is It Too Late? The Escalating Threat of a Dangerous Fungus and the Battle to Detect It

Is It Too Late? The Escalating Threat of a Dangerous Fungus and the Battle to Detect It

How AI-driven diagnostics can improve our response to Candida auris.
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Bauris T, Ph.D
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An Endless Nightmare: Navigating the Post-Omicron World

An Endless Nightmare: Navigating the Post-Omicron World

Five years into the pandemic — is the Omicron variant a “new” coronavirus?
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Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
How Stomach Ulcers Could Silently Trigger Parkinson’s Disease

How Stomach Ulcers Could Silently Trigger Parkinson’s Disease

Upper gut infections may trigger tremors and brain issues, many years later.
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Sam Westreich, PhD
This Doctor Treated Syphilis by Infecting Patients with Malaria and Earned A Nobel Prize

This Doctor Treated Syphilis by Infecting Patients with Malaria and Earned A Nobel Prize

The forgotten story of how a physician prescribed one infection to cure another.
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Dr Tim Crocker-Buque PhD MRCP
Rethinking Disease: How the Quantum Biology of Ferritin Could Change the Game

Rethinking Disease: How the Quantum Biology of Ferritin Could Change the Game

What do cancer, multiple sclerosis, atrial fibrillation, macular degeneration and Parkinson’s disease possibly have in common?
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Chris Rourk
Could Enzymes Be Considered Organisms? Exploring a Bold New Theory

Could Enzymes Be Considered Organisms? Exploring a Bold New Theory

Here’s my argument for why I think they just might be
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The One Alternative View
Polio Returns to Gaza After 25 Years

Polio Returns to Gaza After 25 Years

“How bad is polio?” in 4 minutes.
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Gil Pires
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