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Pierce K. Devereaux

@piercekdevereaux.bsky.social
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Ex-medical laboratory technologist (genetics) | Aspiring author | Member of Crime Writers of Canada and International Thriller Writers. 🧬📚✍️ www.piercekdevereaux.com

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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/books/the-se... NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚
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THE SEQUENCE | Pierce K. Devereaux
Dr. Elena Márquez has devoted her career to genetics. Working with a genomics firm to develop a promising weight-loss gene therapy program, Elena is startled to discover the true,
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A Legal Thriller That Exploits the Form, Then Breaks It www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b... #booksky 💙📚 #thriller
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A Legal Thriller That Exploits the Form, Then Breaks It
Tom McCarthy’s new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Roots will be owned by a U.S. company but operated by a Canadian partner according to the article. For the Roots CEO to say that Roots remains proudly Canadian is laughable.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 13/10/2026
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Why many Canadian snowbirds are skipping Florida this year
Many snowbirds are dipping their toes in new waters looking for potential landing spots for future years
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A Legal Thriller That Exploits the Form, Then Breaks It www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b... #booksky 💙📚 #thriller
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A Legal Thriller That Exploits the Form, Then Breaks It
Tom McCarthy’s new novel brings double agents, drugs and document drops into his signature critiques of contemporary systems.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Should You Get Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Mutations? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w... #science 🧪 #genes #breastcancer
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Should You Get Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Mutations?
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cyberattack Hits Hundreds of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems in France www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Cyberattack Hits Hundreds of Supermarket Refrigeration Systems in France
The attack targeted a Danish software system in more than 400 supermarkets, forcing some shops to throw out frozen produce. The attackers have not been identified.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@politicsandprose.bsky.social : order online. Thanks. #science 🧪 @booksky.club #booksky 💙📚 #genetherapy
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@barnesandnoble.com : order online! Makes a great holiday gift! Readers are invited to solve a puzzle at the end…decipher a sequence! #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚 #fallreading #dna
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@strandbooks.com : order online for your favorite reader! Readers are invited to decipher a sequence at the end! #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚 #genetherapy #dna Thanks.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@strandbooks.com : order online for your favorite reader! Readers are invited to decipher a sequence at the end! #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚 #genetherapy #dna Thanks.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@barnesandnoble.com : order online! Makes a great holiday gift! Readers are invited to solve a puzzle at the end…decipher a sequence! #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚 #fallreading #dna
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
@politicsandprose.bsky.social : order online. Thanks. #science 🧪 @booksky.club #booksky 💙📚 #genetherapy
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w... #science 🧪
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U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds
A report by the secretary general warned that new technologies could be used to access and criminalize people’s innermost thoughts.
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Liberal Party • Parti libéral @liberalca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada 🦃
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w... #science 🧪
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U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens’ Minds
A report by the secretary general warned that new technologies could be used to access and criminalize people’s innermost thoughts.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Final Book From a Master of Crime Fiction www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/b... #booksky 💙📚 @booksky.club
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The Final Book From a Master of Crime Fiction
Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Final Book From a Master of Crime Fiction www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/b... #booksky 💙📚 @booksky.club
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The Final Book From a Master of Crime Fiction
Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/books/the-se... NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. #science 🧪 #booksky 💙📚
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THE SEQUENCE | Pierce K. Devereaux
Dr. Elena Márquez has devoted her career to genetics. Working with a genomics firm to develop a promising weight-loss gene therapy program, Elena is startled to discover the true,
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize for literature. What a great honour. Congratulations.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/b...
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Canadian Poet Anne Carson Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
The writer joins a list of laureates that includes Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and Bob Dylan.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scientists Untangle the Biology of an ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Gene www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/s... #science 🧪
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Scientists Untangle the Biology of an ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Gene
Found in 70 percent of cancers, the gene is seen as a grand orchestrator, but has been surprisingly difficult to stop.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/s... #science 🧪
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel Committee recognized them for “the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
From the Canadian farmers growing the barley and hops, to the brewers who turn them into a great pint — happy Canadian Beer Day.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Scientists Untangle the Biology of an ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Gene www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/s... #science 🧪
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Scientists Untangle the Biology of an ‘Undruggable’ Cancer Gene
Found in 70 percent of cancers, the gene is seen as a grand orchestrator, but has been surprisingly difficult to stop.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/s... #science 🧪
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel Committee recognized them for “the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b... #booksky 📚💙
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Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86
In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/b... #booksky 📚💙
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Jeffrey Archer, Novelist Whose Real Life Rivaled His Thrillers, Dies at 86
In a life of achievement and disgrace, he wrote best-selling novels with themes he knew intimately: ambition, self-promotion, misbehavior and scandal.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
books.friesenpress.com/store/title/... #booksky 💙📚🧪 #science
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The Sequence at the FriesenPress Bookstore
Dr. Elena Márquez has devoted her career to genetics. Working with a genomics firm to develop a promising weight-loss gene therapy program, Elena is startled to discover the true, nefarious applicatio...
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.axios.com/2026/10/02/n... #science 🧪
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Novartis signs $7.8 billion drug deal with Chinese startup
China has gotten really good at making new drugs.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/blog/chromos... #science #booksky 💙📚🧪
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Chromosome 21 Removed Using CRISPR-Cas9 | Pierce K. Devereaux
Chromosome 21 Removed Using CRISPR-Cas9 | https://engineerine.com/down-syndrome-breakthrough/
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/blog/chromos... #science #booksky 💙📚🧪
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Chromosome 21 Removed Using CRISPR-Cas9 | Pierce K. Devereaux
Chromosome 21 Removed Using CRISPR-Cas9 | https://engineerine.com/down-syndrome-breakthrough/
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sadly, if you are under 65 your flu shot is available after October 26 (well past Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend when people get together). If you are over 65 it’s after Thanksgiving. This didn’t make any sense specially when it takes 2 weeks for the vaccine to be fully effective.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.axios.com/2026/10/02/n... #science 🧪
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Novartis signs $7.8 billion drug deal with Chinese startup
China has gotten really good at making new drugs.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
books.friesenpress.com/store/title/... #booksky 💙📚🧪 #science
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The Sequence at the FriesenPress Bookstore
Dr. Elena Márquez has devoted her career to genetics. Working with a genomics firm to develop a promising weight-loss gene therapy program, Elena is startled to discover the true, nefarious applicatio...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
A 17-month-old girl was hospitalized with E. coli after consuming raw milk. Soon, another child — a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm — would wind up in the same San Diego hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc... #science 🧪
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Quebec no longer offering free flu shots to everyone this fall
The province is returning to a pre-pandemic model that limits free vaccination mainly to people at higher risk of complications.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
The FDA designated a voluntary recall of a jalapeño avocado salad dressing by Salata at its highest risk level over concerns about salmonella contamination.
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F.D.A. Classifies Salad Dressing Recall to Highest Health Risk
Salata Dressings initiated the recall of its Jalapeño Avocado Dressing in August over concerns about possible salmonella contamination.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
montrealgazette.com/news/provinc... #science 🧪
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Quebec no longer offering free flu shots to everyone this fall
The province is returning to a pre-pandemic model that limits free vaccination mainly to people at higher risk of complications.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A new pipeline to get more Canadian energy to new markets. One of the largest carbon capture and storage projects in the world. Canada is working. Building big. Building together. Building strong for all.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ontario hospitals owed private banks $70 million last year — and one wasn't sure it could even keep operating - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Ontario hospitals, forced to borrow privately in order to keep the lights on, owed banks more than $70 million in operating loans by the end of fiscal year 2025-26, according to hospital financial sta...
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ijb.utoronto.ca/news/ontario...
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Ontario hospitals owed private banks $70 million last year — and one wasn't sure it could even keep operating - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Ontario hospitals, forced to borrow privately in order to keep the lights on, owed banks more than $70 million in operating loans by the end of fiscal year 2025-26, according to hospital financial sta...
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fruit giant Driscoll's faces class-action lawsuit in Quebec. Suit alleges Driscoll’s fails to inform customers about presence of pesticide residues. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fruit giant Driscoll's faces class-action lawsuit in Quebec | CBC News
Lawyers are asking a Quebec Superior Court judge to authorize a class-action lawsuit against American fruit giant Driscoll’s. It comes after allegations that the company had sent millions of pounds of...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
140,000 jobs. Opening new markets for Canadian energy. Building a stronger, more independent Canadian economy for all.
Screenshot of a translated headline from The Globe and Mail. The headline reads: Ottawa designates West Coast pipeline a project of national interest
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Unfortunately 77 million voters couldn’t identify with that. Sad.
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/blog/can-vir... #science #DNA #booksky 📚💙 @booksky.club
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Can Viruses Steal Human DNA? | Pierce K. Devereaux
Can Viruses Steal Human DNA? | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1E.DfQt.5mbbJu4QR7Oz&smid=url-share
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 29/09/2026
Our infrastructure must adapt to a changing climate. A more volatile world. And a Union that is growing larger. We need to build the transport system for the decades ahead. We need to build a true Transport Union ↓ link.europa.eu/dPtH3y
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Pierce K. Devereaux @piercekdevereaux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
piercekdevereaux.com/blog/can-vir... #science #DNA #booksky 📚💙 @booksky.club
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Can Viruses Steal Human DNA? | Pierce K. Devereaux
Can Viruses Steal Human DNA? | https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/science/virus-molluscum-human-gene.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1E.DfQt.5mbbJu4QR7Oz&smid=url-share
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