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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    ”Calling all medicinal chemists!” wrote Nir London, an engineer at the Weizmann Institute of Science who works in drug discovery.

    In 2021, the Centers for DIsease Control and Prevention launched a surveillance project at a handful of major US airports to detect emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants.

    Here’s how it works:International travelers flying into airports where the surveillance program operates can volunteer to collect their own nasal swab samples.

    “One sample from an aircraft coming from a geographic destination afar can give us information potentially about 200 to 300 people that were on that plane,” Cindy Friedman, who leads the CDC’s traveler genomic surveillance program, told CNN.

    A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk normally thanks to a new neuroprosthesis that delivers electrical pulses to his spinal cord at the push of a button.

    Could a common virus be to blame for some of the bad side effects in patients who receive T-cell therapies to treat their cancer?


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