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By Usha Lee McFarling
Courtesy Barbara Ries
The testing project is proving to be a national model, because of the challenges the organizers overcame and what it showed about the spread of Covid-19.
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By Patrick Skerrett
Angel Franco/The New York Times
Larry Kramer made it his life's work to change how people perceived AIDS, those living with it, and how medical research was done in the U.S.
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By Sharon Begley
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
What a month ago had been merely an intriguing lab finding about testing wastewater to detect the coronavirus has leapt to the threshold of real-world use.
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By Elizabeth Cooney
Khuloud T. Al-Jamal, David McCarthy & Izzat Suffian/Wellcome
In a comprehensive survey of bacteria in human tumor samples, scientists have discovered distinct populations of microbes in different types of tumors.
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By Damian Garde
FeatureChina via AP
PureTech Health, a biotech company in Boston, believes it might have a treatment for Covid-19 survivors facing the risk of long-term lung injuries.
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By Matthew Herper
EMILIE PICKERING FOR STAT
An early stage vaccine is drawing interest from James Wilson, a gene therapy pioneer, as well as AveXis, the gene therapy unit of the drug giant Novartis.
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By Ed Silverman
Drew Angerer/Getty Images
At a forum Thursday, pharma leaders expressed resistance to a voluntary WHO pool to collect patent rights that could be useful in the pandemic response.
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By Josh Morrison
Adobe
Challenge trials, in which volunteers are infected with SARS-CoV-2, can speed the development of a vaccine, but only if we start preparing for them now.
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