The infection has spread to eight states, including California, Tennessee and New Hampshire, with eight people requiring hospitalization. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The agency cites interviews with sick people and laboratory tests showing contact with wild songbirds and bird feeders. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife …
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This was no small feat. Until the very end of last year, no mRNA vaccine had been authorized to date and no such vaccine had been developed by any company to scale. Pfizer has now shipped more than 100 million doses to the U.S. and said this week that it …
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A review published Wednesday in the Lancet Journal found that according to pool data from 40 studies covering 17 countries, static births and maternal mortality increased by almost a third. Ectopic pregnancies increased nearly sixfold – while fertilized eggs hatched outside a woman’s uterus between January 2020 and January 2021, …
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London (AP) – On March 4, 2020, when there were only 84 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK, Professor Sharon Peacock acknowledged that the country needed to increase its capacity to analyze the genetic makeup of the virus. Microbiologists at the University of Cambridge understood that genomic sequencing would …
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The first artificial sweetener – Sac Charin – was discovered by accident, when in 1879, Ira Rimsen, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, saw a sweet substance on his hand after experimenting with various chemicals in a laboratory. Sac Cherin quickly became very popular, mainly because of how cheap it …
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