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China triumphant one year after Wuhan lockdown
“People Supremacy, Life Supremacy” reads the sign at a Wuhan exhibition, where visitors are greeted by a paean to China’s triumph over the pandemic and…
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A health impact study has for the first time estimated the mortality burden attributable to air pollution in more than 1,000 European cities. The study,…
Meena Harris’ New Kids Book Is Out Today & It’s the Perfect Way to Celebrate Inauguration Day
Inauguration Day is just hours away now (rejoice!), and we’re jumping for joy about welcoming Kamala Harris as the first female Vice President. And that’s…
America passes 400K COVID deaths on Trump's final full day of office
America passes 400K COVID deaths on Trump’s final full day of office and almost exactly one year to the day since the first virus case…
Obituary: Luis Glaser, former head of biological chemistry department, 88
Luis Glaser, PhD, a beloved mentor and former head of the then-Department of Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died…
Bowel cancer symptoms: ‘Ribbon-like’ poo is an early warning sign of bowel cancer
Bowel cancer symptoms explained by Doctor Richard Roope Bowel cancer is a general term for cancer that begins in the large bowel – a part…
Watch What Happened When This Guy Ate and Trained Like Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali
Legendary boxer, civil rights activist and all-round icon Muhammad Ali has never really fully left the cultural conversation, but he is well and truly back…
Spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 relatives can evolve against immune responses
Scientists have shown that two species of seasonal human coronavirus related to SARS-CoV-2 can evolve in certain proteins to escape recognition by the immune system,…
A master cancer gene hijacks a ‘molecular crowbar’ to make breast cancer cells invasive
Researchers at the University of Helsinki have defined a cancer invasion machinery which is orchestrated by a frequently mutated cancer gene called Ras. When signaling…