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Long Shot

Driven by a pandemic unprecedented in our lifetimes —a virus that has killed our neighbors, our friends, our families—we are witnesses to the massive international effort to create COVID-19 vaccines a... Read more

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The Super Episode

The Super Episode

The final episode of Long Shot travels millions of years into the past to when coronaviruses first appeared, and brings ... Read more

6 Oct 2021

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Frankenvirus

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The future of coronavirus vaccines may be an engineered spike protein called HexaPro. And it's carried into the human bo... Read more

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