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3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic

  • Written by Deborah Fuller, Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
imageGene-based vaccines had never been approved for humans before the coronavirus pandemic.Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug discovery...

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