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Since the start of the US outbreak in early 2020, Trump repeatedly came under fire from critics after being slow to publicly acknowledge the fatal impact that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can have on individuals. At the time, Trump was often heard telling reporters the virus would disappear on its own. … [Read more...] about Majority of Americans Believe COVID-19 Pandemic is Out of Control, Survey Finds

Augusta: Scientists of Medical College of Georgia claim that looking directly at the Ribonucleic acid (RNA) of brain tumour cells appears to provide objective, efficient evidence to better classify a tumour and the most effective treatments.The report published in Scientific Reports says that the new approach introduced by the researchers produces what is termed a transcriptomic profile of the tumour is particularly adept at recognizing some of the most serious of these tumours.Gliomas are currently classified through histology, primarily the shape, or morphology, pathologists see when they look at the cancerous cells under a microscope, as well as identification of known cancer-causing gene mutations present.While most patients have both the current classification methods performed, there are sometimes inconsistent findings between the two groups, like traditional pathology finding cancer is a glioblastoma when the mutation study did not and vice versa, and even when two pathologists … [Read more...] about Scientists acquaint new methodology with improved treatment of brain tumours

'The general view was the size of the increase of the risk is sufficiently small that, measured against this ability to double the number of people who actually are vaccinated, the public health arguments are really strongly for doing what we have decided to do.' … [Read more...] about At least 54 Brits have been infected with super-infectious South African Covid variant and it has been spreading in the UK since October, official report reveals

Passengers can be fined a minimum of £500 for not complying with the rules, but the Home Office confirmed today that they are then let on their way - meaning dozens of people with Covid-19 could have been let into the UK since the rules were brought in.   … [Read more...] about Home Office admits passengers without correct Covid paperwork are fined £500 then simply waved through gates into UK and ‘told to quarantine’ – as Heathrow Border Force penalise 30 arrivals who failed to show negative test

As it turns out, goats (along with rabbits and a handful of other animals) play a key role in modern bioscience—but on the supply side, not the research side. A paper found in a major science journal might well have depended on a goat in some way; it's just that the lab never saw the animal. Instead, the goat probably lived at a facility like the one that's under investigation, while the research lab received the goat's contribution via a UPS shipment. … [Read more...] about Why would a biotech company keep a secret herd of goats?

Experts at Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Center say they fear that the world may need to roll out second generation vaccines even before first generation vaccines have been fully introduced. Andrea Taylor is the assistant director at the North Carolina-based center. … [Read more...] about Kenyan Scientists Discover New Coronavirus Mutation

R.J. Barrett scored 22 points and had 10 rebounds, and Julius Randle added 21 points and 17 rebounds to lead the New York to its second straight win. Payton chipped in with 12 points and rookie guard Immanuel Quickley added 11 for the Knicks, who improved to 7-8. … [Read more...] about Young Knicks Gaining Confidence, Move Within Game Of .500 With Victory Over Struggling Magic

To get a handle on this, the researchers looked at where the virus inserted in samples of the cultured cells, both before and after transplantation into the patient. In cultured cells, the authors found there were large numbers of different insertion sites (they identified more than 27,000 of them). Forty percent of these sites, however, were in between genes; another 47 percent were in introns, parts of a gene that aren't used to encode a protein. So, most of the insertion locations aren't anywhere that's likely to be harmful. In addition, there was no sign that any of these insertions caused the cells to grow more quickly in culture. … [Read more...] about The future is here: Genetically engineered stem cells save a patient

Getting definitive answers could take months. But Ravindra Gupta, a virologist at the University of Cambridge, has made a start. The 69-70del mutation appeared together with another mutation named D796H in the virus of a patient who was infected for several months and was given convalescent plasma to treat the disease. (The patient eventually died.) In the lab, Gupta’s group found that virus carrying the two mutations was less susceptible to convalescent plasma from several donors than the wild-type virus. That suggests it can evade antibodies targeting the wild-type virus, Gupta wrote in a preprint published this month. He also engineered a lentivirus to express mutated versions of the spike protein and found that the deletion alone made that virus twice as infectious. He is now conducting similar experiments with viruses that carry both the deletion and the N501Y mutation. The first results should appear just after Christmas, Gupta says. … [Read more...] about Mutant coronavirus in the United Kingdom sets off alarms, but its importance remains unclear

The journal will also require authors of all of its papers to detail what data they will share, the criteria for access, and how they’ll make them available. That mandate has previously applied only to reports of clinical trials, not retrospective studies like the Surgisphere paper. (NEJM hasn’t published a similar statement about changes in peer review practices but its editor told The New York Times that the journal should have used reviewers familiar with large hospital data sets.) … [Read more...] about COVID-19 data scandal prompts tweaks to elite journal’s review process