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Researchers from New York University are designing AI algorithms to help predict COVID-19 outcomes.
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It is a pretty spectacular achievement to not only rendezvous with an asteroid as it is whizzing around the Sun but also…
A team of physicists, virologists and computer scientists are seeking to develop a rapid coronavirus diagnostic tool that…
Do mutations that alter the addition of sugars to the coat of the virus affect the severity of the disease?
One anthropologist found 1,072 similar words for 'mom' and 'dad' in the world's languages. It turns…
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Expanding coronavirus testing is one of the most important tasks public health officials are tackling right now. But questions…
A fetus needs oxygen long before its lungs work and it's exposed to the air. Some ingenious biochemistry explains how…
Researchers from Oregon Health and Science University found that variations in genes that code for parts of the cellular…