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The British drugmaker AstraZeneca has said its COVID-19 vaccine could be up to 90% effective if administered as a half dose followed by a full dose, but some scientists have questioned the robustness of that result because only a few thousand people were given that regimen in late-stage UK trials. Serum Institute of India, Read More…
US President-elect Joe Biden has said that he wants to make sure that China plays by the rules and announced that his administration will rejoin the World Health Organisation. Biden was responding to a question on Thursday about his remarks during the presidential debates that he wanted to punish China over the way Beijing Read More…
Due to Global warming rapid melting of glaciers from China to Greenland and Antarctica also increases sea levels, threatening low-lying coastlines globally. Global warming is speeding up melting and disrupting weather patterns that can bring too much or too little rain to the mountains. Billions of people, especially in Asia, rely on these Read More…
In an early morning televised news conference, Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer repeated calls for the public to stay off the streets. Nehammer said police had shot to death one attacker, a man wearing an explosives belt that turned out to be fake, whom authorities have identified as an Islamic State sympathiser. Police Read More…
According to the US Geological Survey, the major earthquake of 7 Richter scale hit 14 kilometres (nine miles) off the Greek town of Karlovasi on Samos. Search and rescue operations are underway at Turkey’s Aegean resort city of Izmir, which suffered much of the damage. Till now 26 people were killed and more Read More…
Turkey, become the only country to back Pakistan at the plenary meeting of the global anti-money laundering watchdog, had proposed a special visit to Islamabad to make an onsite assessment of the Imran Khan government’s implementation to plug holes in its legal framework to curb terror financing. The suggestion at the plenary last week Read More…
The results, published in the European Journal of Immunology, show that age is not a confounding factor in levels of antibodies produced, but disease severity is. “Our immune system recognizes the virus SARS-CoV-2 as harmful and produces antibodies in response to it, which helps to fight the virus,” said study author Marc Veldhoen from Read More…
The 2020 Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for the development of a method for genome editing known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”, the first time a Nobel science prize has gone to a women-only team. “Using these, researchers can change the DNA of animals, plants Read More…
Physics is the second of this year’s crop of Nobels to be awarded after three scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of Hepatitis C on Monday. Among the Nobel prizes, physics has often dominated the spotlight with past awards going to scientific superstars such as Albert Einstein for fundamental discoveries about the Read More…
Three scientists Monday won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the hepatitis C virus, which led to the development of a test to prevent the spread of the virus and drugs that have saved millions of lives, the Nobel Assembly said. Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health; Michael Read More…
