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• The Antibodies From Camels and Sharks That Could Change Medicine A handful of animals make a pared-down version of these pathogen-fighting proteins of our immune system. Scientists hope to harness them as treatments for ills from cancer to COVID.
  Knowable Magazine, February 2023
• COVID, RSV and the Flu: A Case of Viral Interference? The 'tripledemic' unfolding this winter is one of several odd trends among respiratory virus infections these last years. Viruses, it turns out, can block one another and take turns to dominate.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2023
• Handing the Surgeon's Scalpel to a Robot After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge?
  Knowable Magazine, September 2022
• She Saw the Obesity Epidemic Coming. Then Came Controversy. Katherine Flegal was a scientist who found herself crunching numbers for the government, until one day her analyses set off a firestorm. What does she make of her decades as a woman in public health research?
  Knowable Magazine, September 2022
• Vaccinating the World Against COVID-19 Lower-income countries haven’t gotten an equal share of lifesaving coronavirus vaccines. Older, more familiar vaccine technologies may hold the key to more equitable use.
  Knowable Magazine, April 2022
• The First Malaria Vaccine Is a Leap Forward. We Can't Stop Now. Next-generation vaccines, and a lot more money, are needed now to crack the stalemate in the fight against malaria.
  Knowable Magazine, April 2022
• Lyme and Other Tick-Borne Diseases Are on the Rise. But Why? The complex interplay of ticks, their habitats and hosts — along with changes in land use and climate — may be enabling the spread of the pathogens they carry.
  Knowable Magazine, February 2022
• New Antifungal Medications Are Sorely Needed Better treatment for Candida auris, Aspergillus and other dangerous fungal pathogens is slow to come, even as rates of drug resistance rise. New therapies are in the pipeline, and hospital practices can help.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2022
• The Vicious Cycle of Food and Sleep More than a third of Americans don't log enough hours in bed, provoking serious impacts on their health. Diet is an important and underrecognized reason.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2022
• Searching for a Better Treatment for Eating Disorders Scientists are seeking new innovations to help people grappling with the pervasive and often-hidden problems of anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating.
  Knowable Magazine, December 2021

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