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To fight COVID-19, don’t neglect immunity and inflammation

27 May 12:33 9 articles

To fight COVID-19, don’t neglect immunity and inflammation

AFTER SEEING WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO BECOME INFECTED AND DIE, IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION WARRANT FURTHER DISCUSSION AND PUBLIC ATTENTION.

27 May 12:33 Bdnews24 8119004129917882362.html
Dangerous blood clots pose a perplexing coronavirus threat

First came a high fever, drenching sweats and muscle aches. Then, almost a month later, a weird numbness that spread down the right side of her body.Darlene

27 May 12:00 iNFOnews.ca 6669504245970713878.html
Biocon Biologics Gets DCGI Nod For Emergency Use Of CytoSorb To Treat Critical Covid-19 Patients

The US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had recently approved CytoSorb for emergency use in COVID-19 patients.

27 May 12:47 Swarajya 4977622828738934819.html
Relief From Heatwave In North India Soon! Temperature Likely To Dip Down From May 29

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that there might be some relief in the heatwave conditions from May 29. Many places in North India recorded temperatures over 45 degrees celsius.

27 May 12:07 Abplive 5873643725484904285.html
Merck buys Themis as part of drive for COVID-19 drugs and vaccines

Merck & Co/MSD has been conspicuous by its absence from the industry-wide effort to develop coronavirus therapies, but has now unveiled a broad effort across drugs and vaccines.

27 May 12:55 PMLive 7773534728589681715.html
Guiding star of science leads AstraZeneca to breakthrough in child tumour therapy

The power of science has been the guiding star for a drug that has weathered storms to land an approval that has given hope to an underserved cohort of children suffering from the rare genetic disorder neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).

27 May 12:06 PMLive 7773534728347555346.html
Researchers trigger enzymes with light

Enzymes are the central drivers for biochemical metabolic processes in every living cell, enabling reactions to take place efficiently. It is this ability that makes them useful as catalysts in biotechnology, ...

27 May 12:36 phys.org 3476726123059606883.html
Timing of COVID-19 test may be key to its accuracy, says study

The study, which analysed seven previously published studies on RT-PCR performance, adds to evidence that caution should be used in the interpretation of negative test results, the researchers said.

27 May 13:38 The Financial Express 1288289580635594260.html
Human activity threatens billions of years of evolutionary history

A ZSL study published in Nature Communications today maps the evolutionary history of the world's terrestrial vertebrates—amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles—for the first time, exploring how ...

27 May 12:33 phys.org 3476726123494456538.html
2 astronauts to be first launched from US soil in nearly a decade

27 May 13:44 6 articles

2 astronauts to be first launched from US soil in nearly a decade

Liftoff is set for 1:33 p.m. PDT from the same spot at Kennedy Space Center where men flew to the moon and the last space shuttle blasted off in 2011.

27 May 13:44 Las Vegas Review-Journal 8640648837474056583.html
Historic SpaceX launch postponed because of stormy weather

The launch puts Elon Musk’s SpaceX on the cusp of becoming the first private company to put astronauts in orbit, something achieved by just three countries – Russia, the U.S. and China

27 May 13:01 The Globe and Mail 68426410057780572.html
'Bummed out': SpaceX launch scrubbed because of bad weather

The launch puts Elon Musk's SpaceX on the cusp of becoming the first private company to put astronauts in orbit.

27 May 13:42 WVLT 4089046911887815166.html
Elon Musk rocket launch postponed due to bad weather

Craft was to be the first private enterprise vehicle in history to take humans into space

27 May 13:54 The Irish Times 8204772967470451490.html
Elon Musk says ‘it’s his fault’ if anything goes wrong with historic SpaceX launch because he is ‘chief engineer’

ELON Musk says to blame him if anything goes wrong with the historic SpaceX launch on Wednesday that will send two American astronauts into space. Musk told CBS News he’s the “chief engineer” of th…

27 May 13:03 The Sun 7379604592944152371.html
Elon Musk's SpaceX is taking two NASA astronauts to orbit tonight. Here's everything you need to know

SpaceX has never taken people to space before.

27 May 12:01 The Economic Times 7653256037494774180.html
NASA chief "all in" for Tom Cruise to film on space station

27 May 12:04 1 article

NASA chief "all in" for Tom Cruise to film on space station

NASA is rolling out the International Space Station's red carpet for Tom Cruise.

27 May 12:04 Fox 4 8372747778371052966.html
Tropical Storm Bertha forms off S.C. coast

27 May 12:28 4 articles

Tropical Storm Bertha forms off S.C. coast

Tropical Storm Bertha has formed off the South Carolina coast and is expected to bring heavy rainfall.

27 May 12:28 WVLT 4089046910307960607.html
Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall on South Carolina coast

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) says the second named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Bertha, has made landfall on the South Carolina coast.

27 May 12:57 ABC15 Arizona 911680910333503862.html
Bertha weakens into tropical depression hours after South Carolina landfall

A Tropical Storm Warning is now in effect after Tropical Storm Bertha formed off the coast of South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.

27 May 12:42 ABC7 New York 7327811147390616741.html
Tropical Storm Lands in South Carolina Ahead of Atlantic Season

The Atlantic’s second storm of 2020 made landfall just east of Charleston, South Carolina, with the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season still almost a week away.

27 May 12:42 Bloomberg.com 4032480121205792687.html
Flush those water lines

27 May 13:00 3 articles

Flush those water lines

Regional District of North Okanagan officials are warning people of stagnant water when they return to work.

27 May 13:00 Castanet 616068603268735390.html
5 ways people could transmit the coronavirus — from respiratory droplets to semen — ranked in order of risk, Business Insider - Business Insider Singapore

Business Insider - The coronavirus has one main mode of transmission: respiratory droplets. But live virus has been found in poop and semen, too.. Read more at businessinsider.sg

27 May 12:13 www.businessinsider.sg 5090408755621291744.html
COVID-19 Virus Found in Stool May Be Infectious

A new study has shown that COVID-19 virus isolated from the stool of a sick patient can infect cells in a petri dish -- a step toward proving that this might be a new route of transmission for the infection with the coronavirus.

27 May 12:00 WebMD 4010151888336733141.html
Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children

27 May 13:18 1 article

Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children

One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals—a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages. ...

27 May 13:18 phys.org 3476726123703941939.html