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Apr 23, 2020

Coronavirus: Why Oxford university is so confident in an early vaccine win

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, government

The Oxford scientists are extraordinarily confident that their vaccine against the coronavirus will work.

The government’s chief medical officer insists a jab is still 12 to 18 months off and some form of social distancing will be needed until it’s in widespread use.

Their confidence is built on past success. The same vaccine technology has been used on other diseases, including the related coronavirus MERS, as well as Ebola.

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Apr 23, 2020

19 Objects Near Jupiter May Be From Outside the Solar System

Posted by in category: space

It’s the best explanation for their bizarre orbits.

Apr 23, 2020

Article trying to answer the matter of whether we will get good meds before vaccines

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Apr 23, 2020

Elon Musk announces that early access to the Starlink satellite-internet project will launch this year

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, internet

The SpaceX and Tesla CEO made the announcement of two beta tests — one public and one private — on Twitter Wednesday night.

Apr 23, 2020

The Rockefeller Foundation rolls out plan to test 30 million people a week to reopen the country

Posted by in category: health

The Rockefeller Foundation releases an ambitious new proposal to test 30 million people a week, employ up to 300,000 contact tracers, and establish a digital data sharing platform. Rajiv Shah, President and CEO of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Dr. Kavita Patel, former health policy director in the Obama White House, join Andrea Mitchell to discuss this and other plans to reopen the country. April 22, 2020.

Apr 23, 2020

Did heavy rains trigger the eruption of the most dangerous U.S. volcano? Scientists are skeptical

Posted by in category: futurism

A model suggests rains boosted underground pressures and primed Kilauea for eruption in 2018.

Apr 23, 2020

COVID-19 vaccine protects monkeys from new coronavirus, Chinese biotech reports

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

China’s Sinovac makes headway with old-fashioned technology that “kills” whole virus.

Apr 23, 2020

Can Aging be Reversed? Solving the Aging Problem

Posted by in category: life extension

A transcript for this episode is available online in blog form at Transcript: Aubrey de Grey Interview on Solving the Aging Problem.

Imagine a world where we live to 130, 150 or 500 years old. Anti-aging pioneer, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, joins us to share his confidence in how technology will dramatically extend human lifespan. He joins our host, Heather Sandison, ND, to look at aging as a problem to be solved. In this episode, Dr. Aubrey de Grey offers hope to people looking for cutting-edge therapies to live longer. We discuss:

Apr 23, 2020

Whole genome sequencing reveals genetic structural secrets of schizophrenia

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, neuroscience

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Most research about the genetics of schizophrenia has sought to understand the role that genes play in the development and heritability of schizophrenia. Many discoveries have been made, but there have been many missing pieces. Now, UNC School of Medicine scientists have conducted the largest-ever whole genome sequencing study of schizophrenia to provide a more complete picture of the role the human genome plays in this disease.

Published in Nature Communications, the study co-led by senior author Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD, associate professor in the UNC Department of Genetics, suggests that rare structural genetic variants could play a role in schizophrenia.

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Apr 23, 2020

NASA: Something Is Off About This Interstellar Comet

Posted by in category: space

We have seen before🤔🤔.


Observations suggest that its home star system could resemble our own. NASA scientists have even suggested that the object may hold water.

Now, a new study by an international team of researchers led by NASA has revealed something highly unusual: gas emanating from the comet contained unusually high amounts of carbon monoxide — up to 26 times higher than that of the average comet.

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