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I am dying to see Christopher Nolan’s new movie “Tenet”. But would I really die to see it? These are the things we need to ponder over the movies now that the pandemic has turned Nolan’s $ 200 million show into a high-risk test case. After months of closing, theaters …

Modification of the mRNA with phosphorothioate increases the speed of translation initiation and molecular designs are optimized for high translation efficiency. This result provides a useful guide to molecular design to improve the amount of translation by chemical modification of the mRNA. Credit: Nagoya University. Since mRNAs play a key …

As the Covid-19 crisis intensifies in the United States, the fight for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine starting in October. Meanwhile, the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine …

Mosquitoes like this can transmit various diseases to humans. So far this year, at least two cases of the rare mosquito-borne Jamestown Canyon virus have been reported in the United States. (USDA-ARS) The virus has become more common in recent years. Scientists and health experts say climate change may be …

Credit: Trinity Moss on Unsplash Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research. A new study in the AGU journal Geophysical research charts It finds that the world lost between 50 and 75% of the meteorological observations …