Shares of Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. MNTA, + 69.40% 69% shot to record highs in prime trade Wednesday, after biotechnology company announced agreement with Johnson & Johnson JNJ, + 0.63% in a deal valued at $ 6.5 billion. Under the terms of the deal, J&J will pay $ 52.50 for each …
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Russia releases video from COVID-19 vaccine production process
Eager to promote what Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed is the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, the Ministry of Public Health has released a short video of its production process, according to a report. The 40-second clip shows several masked men dressed in blue overalls working in a laboratory, where …
Read More »Ex-Aide: Trump tells DHS secretary, ‘Get your ass to the border’
Once Taylor described it, Trump was fixated on the state to review his homeland security team in action. “He would order us to go to the border so he could see us there under work,” Taylor said. “Do you really think Kirstjen and I set up the steel pollers? That …
Read More »More infected coronavirus mutation may be ‘a good thing’, says disease expert
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An increasingly common mutation of the new coronavirus found in Europe, North America and parts of Asia may be more infectious, but appears less deadly, according to a prominent doctor of infectious diseases. PHILO PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which was …
Read More »Ohio State is still working on creating a new 10-game schedule
The Ohio football season Ohio in 2020 seemed all over. Ever since athletic director Gene Smith announced that there were no prospects of disbanding the Big Ten for even a year, following the conference’s decision to cancel fall sports this fall due to COVID-19, it looks like the Buckeyes fought …
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