The Nobel Prize for Medicine 2020 was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton e Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. They were the first to identify a virus responsible for a disease that was incurable until recently, contributing so to save many lives. Their discovery, notes the Nobel Foundation, … Read more
In Madagascar, the fight against coronavirus has taken the form of a caramel brown liquid. Distributed in plastic bottles, five-liter cans or in the form of tea bags for infusion, the product, called Covid-Organics (CVO), would be effective in “seven days” according to Andry Rajoelina. The Madagascan president no longer appears in public without his … Read more
Ludwigshafen (dpa / lrs) – In the corona crisis, the BASF Group is expanding the free supply of hand disinfectants to other areas of the healthcare system. After the company had considered hospitals in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region in the past few days, the chemical giant is initially concentrating on general practitioners’ offices with emergency … Read more
Ludwigshafen (dpa) – The chemical company BASF postpones its general meeting. The Dax company justified this on Tuesday with the health risks from the spread of the new corona virus. The meeting was to take place in Mannheim, but the state government of Baden-Württemberg has banned events with more than 100 participants until June 15. … Read more
In a March 2 preprint, researchers reported injecting Inovio’s vaccine: a DNA molecule that carries instructions for making the spike protein – in mice and guinea pigs (you can find the PDF here). They found that the animals produced both antibodies and T cells against the virus. Study leader Kate Broderick, Inovio’s senior vice president … Read more
Kellogg, the American company famous for its breakfast cereals, wants to eliminate by 2025 the use of glyphosate on wheat and oats which it uses in its products like Smacks, All Bran or Special K, as part of a broader strategy on the use of pesticides at its suppliers. The weed killer, most often sold … Read more
2020-01-24T12: 09 + 0300 2020-01-24T12: 58 + 0300 https://ria.ru/20200124/1563819386.html Scientists have discovered unusually much oxygen in the atmosphere of an ancient star https://cdn23.img.ria.ru/images/156381/80/1563818061_0mail:1440:810_1036x0_80_0_0_4ddb12ec70bd8b56499a3054dad89c88.jpg RIA News https://cdn22.img.ria.ru/i/export/ria/logo.png — RIA News https://cdn22.img.ria.ru/i/export/ria/logo.png — MOSCOW, Jan 24 – RIA News. Astronomers from the United States, Spain and the United Kingdom discovered in the atmosphere of one of the … Read more