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• Heads Up! The Cardiovascular Secrets of Giraffes Because of their height, giraffes require scarily high blood pressures — yet they escape the massive health problems that plague people with hypertension. Can clinicians learn from these animals?
  Knowable Magazine, May 2021
• Four Ways HIV Activists Have Saved Lives During COVID We owe these early fighters a debt of gratitude for transforming our response to public health crises.
  Knowable Magazine, April 2021
• Know the Enemy: Why Genetic Sequencing Is Key to Tracking COVID The US effort to analyze viral genomes, slow to start, is now picking up speed.
  Knowable Magazine, April 2021
• Friendly Fire: How Autoantibodies Could Drive Severe COVID People who were hospitalized with severe COVID-19 had plenty of antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but they also had a diverse set of antibodies against their own body's tissues and molecules.
  Knowable Magazine, March 2021
• The Challenges of Antiviral Treatments Antibiotics abound, but virus-fighting drugs are harder to come by, and COVID-19 amply shows how much we need them. Fortunately, scientists are getting better at making and finding them.
  Knowable Magazine, February 2021
• The Dash to Adapt Smartwatches to Help Detect COVID Infections Wearable devices already collect vital signs like heart rate and skin temperature. New algorithms can use them to catch illness early leading to urgent efforts to help battle the pandemic.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2021
• A New Way of Looking at Concussions Emerging research suggests that even mild hits to the head may damage the tiny lymphatic vessels that clear toxic chemicals and cellular debris from the brain.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2021
• How to Help COVID-19 Long-Haulers Patients with lingering symptoms need access to specialized clinics — and so much more.
  Knowable Magazine, January 2021
• Agents of Change: How Computers Are Mapping Covid-19's Future Traffic planners, securities traders and military strategists all use it. Simulating the behavior of idiosyncratic individuals may be the way to understand complex phenomena like pandemics.
  Knowable Magazine, December 2020
• Pandemic Puts All Eyes on Public Health Covid-19 has exposed the weak spots of the US public health system — and that presents an opportunity, says an epidemiologist, for the nation to recognize the problems and act to fix them.
  Knowable Magazine, November 2020

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