CHICAGO / LONDON (Reuters) – Developing a COVID-19 vaccine in record time will be difficult. Producing enough to end the pandemic will be the greatest medical manufacturing feat in history. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled “COVID-19 Vaccine” and a medical syringe in this illustration taken on …
Read More »SN7 spacecraft prototype ‘appears’ during cryogenic pressure test until failure
The development of the spacecraft has accelerated in recent weeks. On Tuesday, June 23, SpaceX took the fuel tank of the SN7 prototype for yet another test. This time, it was the cryogenic pressure test for failure in Boca Chica, Texas (via Space.com). The test began by filling the fuel …
Read More »Exclusive: Vaccine Alliance finds manufacturing capacity for 4 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines
CHICAGO (Reuters) – An influential epidemic preparedness and response foundation supporting nine potential coronavirus vaccines has identified manufacturers with the capacity to produce four billion doses a year, the group’s top manufacturing expert told Reuters. FILE PHOTO: This illustration, taken on April 10, 2020, shows small bottles labeled with a …
Read More »Subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa considered potentially ‘habitable’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists have discovered how the subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have formed and determined that this vast expanse of water may have supported microbial life in the past. FILE PHOTO: A view of Jupiter’s moon Europa created from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in …
Read More »The type of ultraviolet light kills the coronavirus in the air; effect on platelets helps explain blood clotting problems
(Reuters) – The following is a brief summary of some of the latest scientific studies on the new coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. FILE PHOTO: The ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (2019-nCoV), which was identified as …
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