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Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center figured out that children have lower levels of a receptor protein that SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes Covid-19 – needs to invade the lungs. “Our study provides a biologic rationale for why particularly infants and very young children seem to be less likely …

The group of scientists, led by Dr. Joseph Fisher at the University Health Network, a medical research organization in Toronto, Canada, were exploring treatments for acute alcohol intoxication when they happened upon a novel solution that generated more than a few sighs of disbelief at how simple it was.  “It’s …

Although there is no mass testing for flu as there is for Covid, the WHO says that surveillance of data from around the world shows flu rates collapsing everywhere. Australia essentially ‘skipped’ their flu season this year, with not a single case reported since July (their peak). In fact, flu …

“I want to say that Venezuela has developed a medicine that annihilates 100 percent of the coronavirus,” Maduro said on Sunday, describing it as a “highly effective antiviral.” It was designed by the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), which has been working on a cure for the virus for …

Much like the original SARS, SARS-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 receptor to access our cells and spread rapidly throughout our respiratory systems and beyond.  “The starting point of our study was the question why SARS-CoV, a coronavirus that led to a much smaller outbreak in 2003, and SARS-CoV-2, spread in such …

In its first few days, almost 3,000 medical and public health scientists, over 4,000 medical practitioners, and an astonishing 65,000 members of the public have added their names to a backlash against government state-sanctioned Covid restrictions. If you wish to sign yourself, you can do so here. The declaration was …

British scholars penned an open letter to PM Boris Johnson, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, as well as health chiefs in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, asking them to urgently reconsider the current epidemic strategy. Authored by Oxford professors Sunetra Gupta and Carl Heneghan, as well as Karol …

The majority of Russian citizens (75%), according to results of poll VTSIOM, in one way or another tend to trust the scientists, but that trust, according to sociologists, there are constraints on the background estimates and projections of the scientists on the situation around COVID-19. The study, whose results came …

Analysis of more than a thousand ancient pines, produced by European scientists, made it possible to determine the impact plague, which raged in the South of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. About how the trees helped in the study of the effects of the plague, writes the edition …

Work on the Assembly and testing of the structural elements of the NICA Collider has continued during the whole period of isolation, during this time, the modules with dipole magnets have been fully assembled and prepared for transportation to storage prior to their installation in the tunnel of the Collider. …