As de COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, scientists and healthcare providers are looking for ways to keep the coronavirus from becoming infected once they are exposed. A new study suggests attracting the virus with a decoy – an engineered, free-floating receptor protein – binds the virus and blocks infection. Erik …

For a world crippled by the coronavirus, salvation depends on a vaccine. But in the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise of that vaccine is hampered by a devastating epidemic that preceded COVID-19: obesity. Scientists know that vaccines …

How much for all this? What about some information that is not so easily shared? With everything on the line, the immunity of COVID-19 feels a bit like a priceless commodity. Pricing a vaccine is not as complicated as making one, but it is not far off. To defeat the …

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Four thousand US dollars are counted by a banker at a bank in Westminster By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar struggled Monday to hold off a rare rally as its longest losing streak in a decade left many of the market structurally short …