Health

WASHINGTON – Chinese government-linked hackers targeted biotech company Moderna Inc, a leading developer of coronavirus vaccine research, earlier this year in an attempt to steal valuable data, according to a US security official. It tracks Chinese piracy activity. Last week, the US Department of Justice released an indictment of two …

Governor Phil Murphy announced 16 new coronavirus deaths and 261 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours on Thursday, as the virus transmission rate remains above 1, a key benchmark for determining the spread of the disease. . The latest update brings the number of deaths to 15,809 known …

Credit: CC0 Public domain Bacteria, small one-celled organisms and, in some cases, deadly, are much more complex than is commonly thought. A review article from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), published in the high-impact journal Nature Reviews Microbiology, sheds light on the organelles, the internal compartments of bacterial cells …

CHICAGO (WLS) – Illinois health officials on Thursday reported 1,772 new cases of COVID-19 and 18 related deaths, as the state announced it would soon close a northern suburban beach to avoid large gatherings. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced that the state’s total confirmed cases of COVID-19 have …

The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, recently forecast that the fall and winter seasons will be “probably one of the most difficult times we have experienced in American public health.” With the intersection of the flu season, the spread of Covid-19, and the …