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Visitors to Jenner’s Hut could be forgiven for believing they’d stepped into a J.R.R. Tolkien novel. This tiny garden shed is tucked away on a quiet path winding through a rewilded English garden, decorated with folksy bark carvings and topped by thick thatch. It belonged to Edward Jenner, an 18th-century doctor who pioneered the world’s first vaccine — and transformed this hut into the world’s first vaccination clinic. (Sands, 11/12)

Diagnosed with A.L.S., they traded stories, drank tequila and made grim jokes at a unique annual gathering on Cape Cod. (Rabin, 11/11)

Daryl Sager, a U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, has had his service dog for five years and said it's been like "magic." (Mordowanac, 11/11)

A research team at Stanford University has harnessed the power of AI to design phages, raising questions about the future of biotechnology and its applications. (Johnson, 11/11)

Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise. (Whang, 11/12)

At age 106, Alice Darrow can clearly recall her days as a nurse during World War II. Darrow sat with patients, even after-hours. One of them had arrived at her hospital on California’s Mare Island with a bullet lodged in his heart. He was not expected to survive surgery, yet he would change her life. (Har, 11/11)