The vaccine that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and drugmaker Moderna have been developing to combat the coronavirus is ready to be tested on humans, NIAID director Anthony Fauci told the Wall Street Journal.[...]
Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
February 25th, 2020 - 12:04 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
AMAZING: US has first Corona vaccine ready for testing!
An Impressive Argument for Single Payer
This is very worth reading. The authors, while coming from a well-known supporter of the Sanders and Warren Medicare for All plans, have now published an objective analysis that is convincing. It is not a full study. Himmelstein deals only with administrative overhead. I can also fault it for [...]
October 20th, 2019 - 8:43 am § in Science
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Seeking God’s Truths
Not all religions claim absolute truth, Buddhism is a process, like science based on a methodical discovery. Judaism is similar except that the Torah is accepted as revelation. However, science is regarded as the word of God so when science trumps Torah, the Torah must be reinterpreted.[...]
WHY SEATTLE’S EFFORTS TO MAKE SLU A BIOTECH PARK FAILED
How Massachusetts Built A Booming Biotech Ecosystem and Washington Failed Original text appeared as an advertisement on 538 sponsored by WE WORK. The text written by Satta Sarmah-Hightower is abstracted for this post and commented by me in blue. The original premise of South Lake Union was that [...]
Trump’s fetal tissue ban
“Promoting the dignity of human life from conception to natural death is one of the very top priorities of President Trump’s administration,” HHS (Axios, 6/6/2019, excerpted )The Trump administration announced yesterday that it will no longer fund medical research that uses fetal tissu[...]
Harvard Biology Star To Cure Aging and Resurrect Dinosaurs
From Jurassic Park to The Fountain of Youth MIT’s alumni magazine often hypes tech, The latest is the announcement that George Church, a major geneticist given to self promotion worthy of Jurassic park, now is starting a company that will reverse aging. GMO DOGS MIT’s Technology Revi[...]
January 8th, 2019 - 1:54 am § in Science
23&ME sells human genomes for $300,000,000
Are one’s soul and their DNA the same things? GlaxoSmithKline has announced a four year deal with 23andMe that allows the drug company access to the genetic data in 23&Me’s database for drug research. The deal will last four years. Of course the protests are already there! On t[...]
China to Edit Babies
S GENETIC CURE FOR AIDS: MAKE BETTER BABIES A team led by Prof He Jiankui says the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had their DNA altered as embryos to prevent them from contracting HIV. The team at the Southern University of Science and Technology, in Shenzhen, has been recruiting couples to[...]
November 15th, 2018 - 1:28 am § in Science
The female scientist who dives naked with belugas
Daily Mail Reporter Braving sub-zero temperatures, a Russian ichthyologist has thrown caution — and her clothes — to the wind to tame two beluga whales in a unique and controversial experiment. A the water temperature hit minus 1.5 degrees Centigrade, a skilled Russian diver, Natalia Avseen[...]
November 7th, 2018 - 4:53 pm § in Science
Science Matters: 9 New Congress Reps Have Science Credentials.
All but one replaced a Republican: Edited from article in Business Insider When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be more scientists in the Congress, one senator and eight members of the House. The members of the 115th Congress include one physicist, one microbiologist,[...]