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  • Does shingles vaccination cut dementia risk? Large study hints at a link

    Analysis of nearly 300,000 people finds an association between the shingles jab and a lower rate of dementia — but questions linger.

  • A cartography of human histology is in the making

    It will identify and locate every type of cell in the human body.

  • Uncommon test solved a Mission medical mystery

    Metagenomic sequencing can be a cutting edge strategy to diagnose patients

  • Mark Zuckerberg And Priscilla Chan On Their New ‘Biohub’ In Chicago

    [Forbes] How they plan to spend billions to help others cure or manage disease

  • Group founded by Mark Zuckerberg to spend $250 million on new Chicago biotech hub, with researchers from Northwestern, UChicago, and UIUC

  • PRINT How An Early Warning Radar Could Prevent Future Pandemics

    A tool called metagenomic sequencing can help detect unknown pathogens, but widespread use faces challenges.

  • Even a Brain-Eating Amoeba Can’t Hide From This Cutting-Edge DNA Tech

  • Repurposed drug battles ‘brain-eating’ amoeba

  • Test for Covid-19, RSV, and flu all at once at 24th and Capp

  • Trends in Genetics: decade of molecular cell atlases

  • A popular at-home test detects most infectious Omicron cases, a study suggests.

  • Python power-up: new image tool visualizes complex data

    The image viewing and analysis software napari has filled a gap in the programming language’s scientific ecosystem.