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Bob Nelsen had been quietly wondering how to eradicate the viruses for years, before one day in 2015, he greeted a pair of immunologists at the ARCH Venture Partners offices on the 34th floor of the Wells Fargo building in Seattle. Louis Picker and Klaus Früh, professors at the Oregon …

First, Indonesia’s agriculture minister promoted the use of a necklace containing a potion of eucalyptus to cure the coronavirus. Not to be outdone, the governor of Bali, a popular tourist island, came up with his own remedy: inhaling the steam from boiled arak, a traditional alcohol made from coconuts. So-called …

A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than 673,000 people worldwide. More than 17.3 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to data compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. The actual numbers …

There are few Stranger animals than monkfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when males and females connect underwater, males fuse their tissue with females for life. After the merger, the two share a single respiratory and digestive system. Scientists have now discovered that monkfish …

Striking images showed several separate feet of faithful dressed in white surrounding the Kaaba New Delhi: In years before the coronavirus, millions of pilgrims from around the world flocked to Islam’s holiest place to attend hajj, one of the world’s largest religious gatherings. However, with a virus-induced ban on large …