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    Whether the goal is to find a treatment for COVID-19 or another disease, scientists often have to conduct preliminary tests on animals to determine whether the drug is safe or effective in people. It’s not always a one-for-one comparison, but The New York Times reports there may be a new way around that step going forward: 3-D printing. For example, Anthony Atala, the director of the Wake Forest…

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    To register for President Trump’s June 19 rally in Oklahoma, attendees must agree not to hold his campaign responsible if they catch coronavirus at the event. Trump is holding his first rally since March at the BOK Center in Tulsa, and attendees must agree to an online waiver of liability that reads: ‘By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19…

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    In the 72 hours since the Trump administration used tear gas and other nonlethal force to violently clear Lafayette Square of peaceful protesters before President Trump’s walk to St. John’s Church, ‘the White House has been transformed into a veritable fortress,’ The Washington Post reports, with tall security fencing and concrete barriers erected to keep protesters from an expanded secure zone….

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    GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer division is teaming up with California gene-editing startup Mammoth Biosciences to develop a rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test that could eventually be used at home, Mammoth said last week. The test would use Mammoth’s CRISPR gene-editing technology as a diagnostic tool, returning results from a nasal swab within 20 minutes. Eventually, the two companies want to make the…

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