Does a Smallpox Drug Work for Monkeypox? What Scientists Know

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August 26, 2022

Pharmaceuticals Does a Smallpox Drug Work for Monkeypox? What Scientists Know The antiviral Tecovirimat (TPOXX) shows promise against monkeypox, but human data and supplies are limited By Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Genetic Engineering Mouse Embryos Grown without Eggs or Sperm Two research teams grew synthetic embryos using stem cells for long enough to see some organs develop By Cassandra Willyard,Nature magazine

Artificial Intelligence This Artificial Intelligence Learns like a Widdle Baby Engineers at the company DeepMind built a machine-learning system based on research on how babies' brain works, and it did better on certain tasks than its conventional counterparts. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:36

Materials Science Recycled Wind Turbines Could Be Made into Plexiglass, Diapers or Gummy Bears A new resin can hold fiberglass wind turbines together for years and then be recycled into valuable products, making green energy even greener By Sophie Bushwick

Neuroscience See the Top Entries in the Art of Neuroscience Competition Van Gogh and Ramón y Cajal, like you've never seen them before, in the annual Art of Neuroscience Competition By Fionna M. D. Samuels,Liz Tormes

Mental Health Doctors Need to Learn to Talk about Suicide Medical schools have neglected suicide, one of the leading causes of death. Teaching specific skills, including empathy, can help doctors save lives By Rodolfo Bonnin,Leonard M. Gralnik

Space Exploration The 'Program Is Precarious': Lori Garver on NASA's Artemis I Moonshot A former NASA deputy administrator speaks candidly about the troubled history and radical potential of the space agency's lunar return By Nadia Drake

Epidemiology Long COVID in Children Appears Less Common Than Early Fears Suggested Although the risk of long COVID is not insignificant, it is much lower than previously thought By Shannon Hall

Vaccines New Polio Outbreaks Worldwide Put Scientists on Alert Cases of paralysis in the U.S. and Israel suggest vaccine-derived poliovirus has infected many people By Heidi Ledford,Nature magazine

Vaccines COVID Has Set Back Childhood Immunizations Worldwide No child should have to die of a preventable disease. Getting pediatric vaccine numbers back to what they used to be will take money, time and cooperation By Seth Berkley

FROM THE STORE Hacking the Immune System The immune system is a marvel, but sometimes those defenses need help. In this eBook, we examine various ways the immune system is being manipulated to fight disease, starting with the science behind the research into COVID vaccines and treatments. We also examine cutting-edge interventions for infectious diseases beyond COVID such as a universal flu vaccine, immunotherapies for cancer and more.

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