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    Researchers around the globe are working with unprecedented speed to find the vaccines we need to find our way through the pandemic. What’s the bar for safety and effectiveness?

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    • What’s the bar for safety and effectiveness? Read the new article @KnowableMag from @AnnualReviews. Thanks to Eric Bender and glad to have contributed to your article. @PeterHotez @BCM_TropMed @TCHGlobalHealth https://t.co/lvSZXHZzlX

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    How viruses evolve - 4 year(s) ago

    Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like Covid-19?

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    • How #viruses evolve - @KnowableMag "The outcome of SARS-CoV-2 depends on the complex and sometimes subtle interplay of ecological and evolutionary forces that shape how viruses and their hosts respond to one another" #COVID19 https://t.co/8XXXwB43Bx https://t.co/MuDOIEhNom

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    An immune reaction gone wild seems to be linked with the most severe cases of pandemic Covid-19. Here’s what happens.

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    • What is a cytokine storm? - @KnowableMag "An immune reaction gone wild seems to be linked with the most severe cases of pandemic #COVID19 Here’s what happens" https://t.co/H48zURDCDT https://t.co/wlGA9WMDRc

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    Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology, thanks to new technology that allows them to observe the process in living cells. It’s teaching them a lot.

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    • What does it look like to “turn on” a gene? -@KnowableMag"The video is fuzzy & a few seconds long, but it wowed the scientists who saw it. They were witnessing details of an early step, long unseen, in a central event in biology" https://t.co/eiNEeyyFYy https://t.co/hxWxtAf8Y1

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    An immune reaction gone wild seems to be linked with the most severe cases of pandemic Covid-19. Here’s what happens.

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    • What is a cytokine storm? - @KnowableMag "Immune cells flood and attack the lungs they should be protecting. Blood vessels leak; the blood itself clots. Blood pressure plummets and organs start to fail" #COVID19 #ImmuneSystem https://t.co/VSRX2eIaUC https://t.co/al3JoRczzp