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The project, called Intercept, aims to financially back the development of treatments that protect against respiratory ...

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A recent incident involving HSV-1 has reignited common misconceptions about the disease, commonly known as herpes. Herpes ...

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This episode is part of “The Young American Scientists,” an editorially independent project that was produced with financial support from Regeneron. Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science ...

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