Oxford scientist leading Britain’s coronavirus vaccine race urges Government to help produce millions of doses amid hopes jab could be ready by September Professor Sarah Gilbert said manufacturing in Britain will need to be upscaled Sir Patrick Vallance said it will be ‘challenging’ but it ‘can be done’ He said vaccines are a ‘long shot’… Read More »
Protein power The research team set out to create their blood-based test by identifying a signature set of biomarkers in patients’ blood that consistently indicated a high likelihood of ATB, then developing an easily deployable assay that could detect that signature. They first measured the levels of 47 different blood proteins in about 400 samples… Read More »
A deadly pandemic could sweep the world in hours and kill millions because NO country is fully prepared, report claims Scientists say outbreak of flu-like illness is inevitable and could spread in hours Found just 13 countries had resources and health care systems to put up a fight But given how fast it’d spread, they… Read More »
Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease. So in 2017 she volunteered for a small clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University that was testing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, for chronic depression. “I was so depressed,” Petersen, 29, said… Read More »
Is fake news being spread through social media as part of an information war? Are political operatives publishing disinformation to smear the opposition and help their own agendas? Who creates fake news, how does it spread, and can it be stopped? What are the real world effects of fake news stories that go viral? Did… Read More »