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Weekly Roundup: CBD, Love, Dolphins, and More 0
- Flash News
- November 28, 2020
1. The Science Behind Falling in Love What is love? Magdalena Osial takes a dive into the cocktail of chemical reactions that happen in the brain throughout the several phases of a relationship. Usually, the attraction is associated with desire, a phenomenon intrinsically linked with the brain pathways that control “reward” behaviors. The hypothalamus produces dopamine
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Covid-19 Vaccines: A Timeline of Recent Advancements 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- November 26, 2020
Images Credit: Mos.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, Rs-nourse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moderna_Therapeutics_company_logo.png with UploadWizard, CC BY-SA 3.0 Press Releases: Sputnik: https://sputnikvaccine.com/newsroom/pressreleases/second-interim-analysis-of-clinical-trial-data-showed-a-91-4-efficacy-for-the-sputnik-v-vaccine-on-d/ AstraZeneca: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-23-oxford-university-breakthrough-global-covid-19-vaccine FDA: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-announces-advisory-committee-meeting-discuss-covid-19-vaccine Pfizer: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-conclude-phase-3-study-covid-19-vaccine Moderna: https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-meets-its-primary-efficacy
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Weekly Roundup: Vaccines On the Way, Long-Lasting Immunity, and More 0
- Flash News
- November 20, 2020
Phase 3 is over: Pfizer’s Vaccine is 95% effective against Covid-19 On November 18, Pfizer and the German manufacturer BioNTech shared the phase 3 results from the BNT162b2 vaccine candidate. The mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine met all the efficacy endpoints across different ages, gender, races, and ethnicities. The vaccine’s overall efficacy is 95%, and the reported side-effects
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The First Record of a SARS-CoV2 Infection Dates to One Year Ago Today 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- November 17, 2020
A 55-year-old resident of Hubei, China, may have been the first registered case of the novel coronavirus infection. The record dates to one year ago today, on the 17th of November 2019, according to Chinese official data revealed by The South China Morning Post. But the search for “patient zero” is far from over. Without
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Pfizer’s Vaccine Offers Protection against Covid19, According to Early Data 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- November 9, 2020
Pfizer’s mRNA-based vaccine candidate shows initial evidence of protection against Covid-19, the American pharmaceutical company announced today. Preliminary data from the phase 3 vaccine trials, which began on July 27, indicates the vaccine has a 90% efficacy rate in preventing Covid-19 in participants without prior evidence of Sars-Cov2 infection. The trial is taking place in
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Researchers Clone SARS-CoV2 in One Week 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- May 5, 2020
Cloning the novel SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) in the laboratory is now more rapid and efficient. A team of researchers from Bern, Switzerland, created a synthetic platform that produced SARS-CoV-2 copies in only one week. The results were published yesterday, as an unedited manuscript, in the scientific journal Nature. The new replication model was made using TAR
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