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The novel coronavirus under an electron microscope. Note the characteristic crown, or ‘corona’, of proteins projecting from its outer surface. Source: NIAID/RML.

NPR has the story of the ongoing hospital […]

“Reprogrammed cells (green) fuse with and become skeletal muscles (red), spreading infection as they go. Cell nuclei are shown in blue.” Source: Masaki et al./Cell

Recent research into the mechanisms of […]

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Guest blogger Gina Cairney reviews the Great Disease Project on the Education Week blog Curriculum Matters: Infectious-Diseases Program Engages Students in Science:

At a time of heightened attention to getting […]

A forthcoming paper on the ‘Great Diseases’ project by Dr. Jacque et al. is featured in the AM Rounds March Sneak Peek:

“>The Great Diseases Project: A Partnership Between Tufts Medical School and the Boston Public Schools

Illustration by Stuart Bradford. Source: New York Times website.

How far would you go to avoid getting a certain type of cancer? How far would you go to avoid getting it again? In Facing Cancer, a Stark […]

Caption via New York Times: “Tiny magnetic beads force the larger T-cells to divide before they are infused into the patient.” (Photo: University of Pennsylvania)

The HIV virus causes AIDS, one of the top ten […]

The New York Times summarizes two recent papers on melanomas, the most dangerous type of skin cancer, that provide strong evidence that such cancers start not with mutations in genes, but mutations in the DNA […]

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