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Links for you. Science: New Studies Find Evidence Of ‘Superhuman’ Immunity To COVID-19 In Some Individuals Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters? The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Can Science Help Resolve the Controversy on the Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic? Host Colonization as a Major Evolutionary Force Favoring the Diversity and the Emergence of the Worldwide Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli ST131 Rapid, Large-Scale Wastewater … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Delta’s rise is fuelled by rampant spread from people who feel fine. People infected with the Delta variant generally do not have COVID-19 symptoms until two days after they start shedding the coronavirus. LED streetlights contribute … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The Pandemic’s Hidden Toll Is Revealed in Excess Death Counts (paper here) COVID Vaccines Show No Signs of Harming Fertility or Sexual Function Study: Patients, not staff, source of most hospital COVID spread Apes say hello … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The P-town study was not a study that should have been used as the basis for an abrupt change to national policy. (not sure I agree with that, but it’s a good explanation of the problems … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Here’s What to Know About the Untreatable Fungus Found in a DC Nursing Home COVID Symptoms May Linger In Some Vaccinated People Who Get Infected, Study Finds Harmful bacteria are hiding in livestock; traditional methods aren’t … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19 Cicada eggs are showing red eyes, with the next generation moments from hatching A Python-based programming language for high-performance computational genomics Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the … Continue reading →

What I find depressing about this Axios story describing the Biden administration’s hesitancy to mandate vaccination for certain groups and professions (see what I did there?) is that they seem more afraid of deluded and ignorant people who oppose vaccination … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Comparative Pathogenomics of Escherichia coli: Polyvalent Vaccine Target Identification through Virulome Analysis Pandemic of antibiotic resistance is shortening the lives of children in Bangladesh Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean Why autoimmunity is … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Infection and Vaccine-Induced Neutralizing-Antibody Responses to the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617 Variants (encouraging!) Danish children struggle to learn their vowel-filled language – and this changes how adult Danes interact The Asgard Archaeal-Unique Contribution to Protein Families of the … Continue reading →