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Dogs are such incredible creatures. They are by our side when we need them most, and they’ve been trained to perform a wide variety of tasks over their 20,000 years as our best friends. They never cease to amaze, and now they’ve even successfully been trained to sniff out COVID-19 infections in people, with shockingly high accuracy. Could this be an efficient new way to prevent the spread of the virus?Two dogs began their work at the Miami International Airport last week, by the names of O …

The new Moderna and Pfizer vaccines developed for COVID-19 are an entirely new type of vaccine that does not include the virus. They care called mRNA vaccines, or messenger vaccines. How do they differ from traditional vaccines, and what makes them such an exciting scientific breakthrough? Key Points1 mRNA vaccine technology is new, but the concept has been studied for decades. mRNA vaccines do not contain a live virus and do not carry a risk of causing disease …