…trial where each participant was randomly assigned to an experimental group or a control group. Randomizing trial participants eliminates unwanted effects that have nothing to do with the variables being…
…to block SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets. Interim results in 775 patients of a phase 3 clinical trial with molnupiravir show that the drug reduced hospitalization or death about 50% compared…
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…accident, deliberate release, or a vaccine trial. Rozo and Gronvall have re-examined the available evidence for the origin of the 1977 H1N1 virus. While there is ample documentation of the…
…in an infected individual appear to be nonviable, suggesting that the population exists at its error threshold. What would happen if we could push replicating genomes over the error threshold?…
…molecules that catalysed their own synthesis. Viroids have properties that make them candidates for survivors of the RNA world: small genome size (to avoid error catastrophe caused by error-prone replication),…
