The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) announced Friday that international students who plan to enroll only in online classes this fall will not be allowed to enter the country. The announcement came as the United States exceeded 4 million cases of coronavirus and as colleges and universities …
Read More »State of Michigan: Soccer team becomes latest victim of contact tracking protocol
Donna Shalala is not your normal Washington DC policy. She is the former president of two gigantic soccer players, Miami and Wisconsin. She knows soccer. And then she knows how difficult it is for the coronavirus to play soccer this fall. Specifically, it encompasses the obstacle of contact tracing, which …
Read More »Meet Cosmo, a calf designed to produce 75% male offspring
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have successfully produced a calf, named Cosmo, which was genetically edited as an embryo to produce more male offspring. The research was featured in a poster today (July 23) at the meeting of the American Society for Animal Science. Using CRISPR genome editing …
Read More »Roy Williams again proves he is more than a basketball coach for Carolina
In October 2016, he was sitting at the end of a wooden bleacher in the congested Koury Natatorium at the University of North Carolina. My middle son Clayton was competing for Georgia in her first college swim meet against the Tar Heels. Within minutes of the meeting, a silver-haired man …
Read More »This promising new COVID-19 treatment could reduce patient deaths
Aerosol-based treatment could dramatically reduce the number of new coronavirus patients dying from the disease or requiring intensive care, according to preliminary results published Monday by a British biotech firm. In a randomized trial of 100 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those who received an inhaled formula of the protein interferon …
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