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Malaysia detects coronavirus strain that’s ten times more infectious
The mutation called D614G was found in at least three of the 45 cases in a…
There’s a 90% Chance of a Successful Coronavirus Vaccine: Experts
Welcome to the COVID-19 arms race. Read more at The National Interest…
AI Approach Identifies Potential New Drugs to Treat COVID-19
A machine-learning approach screened millions of commercially available small moleculesto identify hundreds of potential drug candidates…
Why You Can Smell a Fart Through a Mask
As that anti-masker having a tantrum in a Panera pointed out, you can smell a fart…
DeepMind’s AI automatically generates reinforcement learning algorithms
Researchers at DeepMind propose a new technique that automatically discovers a reinforcement learning algorithm from scratch.…
Oxford coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response
Trials involving 1,077 people showed injection led to them making antibodies and t-cells that can fight…
High-accuracy prostate cancer pathology using deep learning
Deep learning methods can be a powerful part of digital pathology workflows, provided well-annotated training datasets…
If the coronavirus is really airborne, we might be fighting it the wrong way
Airborne transmission would mean there are certain solutions we really need to focus on. Read more…
30-year-old dies after Texas ‘COVID party,’ thought coronavirus was a hoax
“He said to his nurse was, ‘I think I made a mistake.'” Read more at ABC7…
First precise edits to mitochondrial DNA achieved with weird enzyme
Feat enables researchers to study — and perhaps treat — deadly diseases. Read more…
The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19
The outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic begins to slow (and eventually ceases altogether) because enough people…
Was Coronavirus Really in Europe in March 2019? | RealClearScience
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 may have been in Europe for longer than previously thought.…
New tools to prevent cancer growth and spread: a ‘Clever’ approach
The immune landscape of cancer. Nature 360, 23 (1992). Cas pubmed google scholar 3. Thorsson, v.…
Satellites documented COVID-19’s impact from space
A new dashboard monitors the pandemic’s economic and environmental effects. Read more at The Verge…
Graph shows stark difference in US and EU responses to Covid-19 – CNN Video
CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta uses a graph to compare new Covid-19 reported case numbers for the…
The Covid-19 Catastrophe; Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened – review
A government press briefing on Coronavirus revealed he was ‘extremely well prepared’ for an outbreak of…
Personalised cancer vaccine ‘activates immune system’ in early trials
Personalised vaccines have shown ‘promising signs’ in early clinical trials of patients with advanced cancers. Researchers…
A noncompeting pair of human neutralizing antibodies block COVID-19 virus binding to its receptor ACE2
Antibodies are neutralizing, meaning that they prevent the virus from being infectious, and can thus be…
Common Steroid Drug Shows Lifesaving Results In Large Coronavirus Trial
Dexamethasone was found to reduce the odds of death in patients with severe covid-19. In a…