[ad_1] NASA has formally recruited tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to return humans to the Moon in 2024. The independent space agency revealed Thursday that it had awarded $ 967 million in deals to three American companies in connection with their Artemis project: Musk’s SpaceX, Bezos’ Blue Origin, …
Read More »The new COVID-19 vaccine is promising in monkeys. Next step: humans.
[ad_1] An experimental COVID-19 vaccine protected the monkeys from contracting the viral infection, according to an unrevised report. The new vaccine has now entered clinical trials in china to test the drug in humans. Although the animal study, published April 19 in the prepress database bioRxiv, not formally reviewed, scientists …
Read More »India to test 100-year-old vaccine in humans as war against Covid-19 heats up
[ad_1] The recombinant BCG vaccine from the Serum Institute would be the first candidate vaccine in India to start human trials in the next two weeks. This is to test whether the BCG vaccine, administered at birth to Indians to combat tuberculosis, can also increase immunity in adults against the …
Read More »Explained: Why should disinfectant not be sprayed on humans?
[ad_1] Written by Abantika Ghosh The | New Delhi | Updated: April 21, 2020 7:02:33 pm Coronavirus (COVID-19): Workers spray themselves with disinfecting solution in Gujarat. (Express photo: Bhupendra Rana) Coronavirus (COVID-19): Immediately after the announcement of the national closure last month, when countless migrant workers began to walk hundreds …
Read More »Humans are to blame for the spread of coronavirus and other ‘zoonoses’ – Health
[ad_1] It is not certain if it came from a bat or a pangolin, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak that has killed tens of thousands and upset the world comes from the animal world. Human activity allowed the virus to jump on people, and specialists warn that if …
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