"So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same.” Fugazza and her Hungarian colleagues have been studying canine behavior and cognition for several years. For instance, in 2023, we reported on ...

Gain-of-function research is work that’s reasonably expected to make a pathogen more virulent or transmissible. Pfizer denied doing gain-of-function research while developing its COVID-19 vaccine, and ...

In 2011, two teams of scientists created an uproar after revealing they had separately mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus to spread among ferrets through the air, something it didn’t do naturally. The ...

Function (Fn) keys – F1, F2, F3, etc., come in handy for those who are in dire need of shortcuts on their keyboards. Laptops are usually equipped with such keys but desktop keyboards, especially the ...

The work has helped in the development of mRNA coronavirus vaccines and the first approved covid drug. In May, the longtime coronavirus researcher Ralph Baric found himself at the center of the ...

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