From afar, the images look like clusters of tiny, multicolored dots strewn across paper. "But the dots tell a story," immunologist Gigi Gronvall says about the two prints she framed and hung behind ...

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As the possibility of human transmission of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza (bird flu) looms, it is time to assess whether the nation is prepared to mount a mass vaccination campaign against a new ...

At the University of Pennsylvania, microbiologist Cesar de la Fuente is using AI to more quickly make discoveries in biology and medicine. Much of the work has focused on antibiotics — new molecules ...

On a special episode (first released on February 27, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: As bird flu, also known as H5N1, continues to spread across the country, experts are concerned about the potential ...

Where will the support be to handle the onslaught of health data that will be coming at us from our patients? With artificial intelligence (AI) getting better and better, more and more of our patients ...