Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck’s coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to OK the treatment, although it was not immediately clear how quickly the pill would be available.
The CDRH Health Care at Home initiative aims to better position agency to address health care needs by moving care into the home setting.
Huang et al. examine how a person’s genetic make-up affects their immune response to Epstein-Barr virus and how this relationship affects risk for multiple
The interior of black holes remains a conundrum for science. In 1916, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild outlined a solution to Albert Einstein’s equations of…
Viral infection can lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome that damages the lungs and is often lethal. Zhao et al. show that the TGF-β receptor 2…
Using a virus-like delivery particle made from DNA, researchers from MIT and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard have created a vaccine…
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected hundreds of millions of individuals and caused more than six million deaths. The prolonged pandemic duration and the continual inter-individual…
Oil spills are deadly disasters for ocean ecosystems. They can have lasting impacts on fish and marine mammals for decades and wreak havoc on coastal…
Gene editing has the potential to solve fundamental challenges in agriculture, biotechnology, and human health. CRISPR-based gene editors derived from microbes, while powerful, often show…
The Bitcoiners will first need to convince 100,000 Swiss nationals to sign the petition to kick off a referendum… a threshold that plagued their first…
An adviser from Japan Space Systems, Koichi Ijichi, shared details about the plans of the mini space-based solar power plant.
