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Reaction: Scott Becker, CEO of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, says the time is not right to shift responsibility for sites, especially those near emerging hot spots in Texas, to the states. “Federally supported test sites are still critically necessary, and somewhere like Houston and Harris County, TX and …

An advance that led to the creation of new neurons in mice could be used to transplant brain cells in Parkinson’s patients and cure them of the disease. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine created neurons in mice using a new and much simpler method …

Bayer will pay more than $ 10 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits related to claims that its herbicide Roundup causes cancer, the company announced Wednesday. Monsanto, bought by Bayer in 2018, lost a lawsuit that same year filed by a school gardener who claimed that his herbicide had caused …

The Trump administration will end federal funding for 13 community-based coronavirus testing sites by the end of June as part of a previously announced plan to extend support for Covid-19 testing across the country by others. media. The move, confirmed by NBC News, will affect seven sites in Texas, which …

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks during a press conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Coronavirus outbreaks in the Americas have not yet peaked, with the number of Covid-19 cases worldwide close to 10 …