Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000 years ago
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Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes to the oral microbiome at... Read more » - Africa’s forests are now emitting more CO2 than they absorb
Logging and mining are destroying swathes of the Congo rainforest, with the result that African forests went from being a carbon sink... Read more » - Plastic can be programmed to have a lifespan of days, months or years
Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no... Read more »
Why it’s so easy to choke on fish bones – and the other dangers they pose
"Strictly Come Dancing" judge Shirley Ballas recently revealed that she’d “thought that was it” after a fish bone became lodged in her throat. Ballas’s terrifying ordeal lasted for 20 minutes,…... Read more »- Celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley‑Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge have backed a new campaign that is putting the spotlight on beans. "The Bang In Some Beans" campaign is a bid to…... Read more »
- Megan Feller smoked pot several times a day and couldn’t eat, sleep or function without it. But at the time, she didn't see the need to reach out…... Read more »
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- Inside a lab in the French city of Orleans, scientists are testing out the limits of molecules in our body called messenger RNA -- best known for being…... Read more »
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- A grandson is worried his 92-year-old grandmother might have a stroke so he gives her a smartwatch that can constantly monitor her heart health, notifying her or caregivers…... Read more »
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Moderna: What Ingredients are in the COVID-19 Vaccine?ct.gov/covidvaccine
Ingredients: messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA), lipids (SM-102, polyethylene glycol [PEG] 2000 dimyristoyl glycerol [DMG], cholesterol, and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine [DSPC]), tromethamine, tromethamine hydrochloride, acetic acid, sodium acetate, and sucrose • Explanation of ingredients: -... Read more »- 07/21/2021: Lab Alert: Changes to CDC RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 Testing
After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic PanelCDC... Read more » - NEJM.org: Table 4. Pregnancy Loss and Neonatal Outcomes in Published Studies and V-safe Pregnancy Registry Participants. April 21, 2021
A total of 96 of 104 spontaneous abortions (92.3%) occurred before 13 weeks of gestation. No denominator was available to calculate a risk estimate for spontaneous abortions, because at the time of... Read more » - PATENT: MODIFIED POLYNUCLEOTIDES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ONCOLOGY RELATED PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES 2017
SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid, carries all the information needed for it to spread in around 30,000 letters of genetic code, known as RNA. The virus shares a sequence of 19 specific letters... Read more » - Luciferase SM-102 (Lipid H CAS Number 2089251-47-6) Cayman Chemical
SM-102 is an ionizable amino lipid that has been used in combination with other lipids in the formation of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs).1 Administration of luciferase mRNA in SM-102-containing LNPs induces hepatic luciferase... Read more »
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