Moderna Inc.’s candidate vaccine against Covid-19 protected against the virus in a trial that inoculated 16 monkeys, an encouraging step on the road to defending humans against the pandemic. Two injections of the vaccine protected against intense exposure to the virus at two different dosage levels, Modern he said in …
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A six-year-old Siamese cat has become the first animal in the UK to be infected with coronavirus, just weeks after the United States announced the first infection in two domestic cats in New York State. The UK Chief Veterinary Officer confirmed that the virus responsible for COVID-19 was detected in …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian scientists are studying the incredibly well-preserved bones of an adult woolly mammoth that roamed the land at least 10,000 years ago, after local inhabitants discovered its remains in the shallow waters of a northern lake in Siberia. Part of its skull, several ribs and bones of …
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Scientists have successfully revived microbes that had been dormant at the bottom of the sea since the age of dinosaurs, allowing organisms to eat and even multiply after eons in the depths. His research sheds light on the remarkable survival power of some of the most primitive species on Earth, …
Read More »Enlarged image showing revived microbes from sediments 101.5 million years old.Image: JAMSTEC Scientists have revived microbes found deep in the seafloor in 100 million-year-old sediments, dramatically expanding our vision of where life exists on Earth and for how long. An international team of scientists led by geomicrobiologist Yuki Morono of …
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