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Why Covid's lessons will matter in the next pandemic

January 11, 2025
Mike Reddy for STAT

What Covid tried to teach us — and why it will matter in the next pandemic

The past five years have both sped and crawled by, too busy at times to take stock of all that has changed, too plodding to believe we have arrived at this anniversary already. Read more.

By Helen Branswell



Janina Paech, a medical student and a patient who received CAR-Ts as a treatment for lupus, in the park near the clinic where she studies.Ksenia Kuleshova for STAT

German research team's discoveries open new possibilities for patients with autoimmune diseases

Early evidence suggests CAR-T could be a powerful tool to treat, and maybe vanquish, some conditions. Three years after treatment, Janina Paech (above) has no signs of the disease that sidelined her life. "Sometimes I even forget I had lupus," she says. Read more.

By Andrew Joseph


Molly Ferguson for STAT

Want to start a fight among virus experts? Ask about HIV's new name

Jens Kuhn has the most despised job in virology: He's a taxonomist, a categorizer of the viral world. Kuhn and his colleagues at the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses recently did something so brazen, so high-handed, that outrage was unavoidable: They essentially renamed all the viruses. Read more.

By Jason Mast


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