After COVID-19, Can mRNA Vaccines Help with Cancer as Well?
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (smaller round cells) attached to a cancer cell. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Advertisement
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5 Unique Ways Animals Avoid Getting Eaten
A healthy, balanced diet is a great way to live to a ripe, old age. But even more important is avoiding being part of someone else’s healthy, balanced diet. Few creatures on this planet enjoy the distinction of sitting on top of their local food chain. Even those that rely on killing others for sustenance must sometimes avoid other, bigger predators; for every great...
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Birth Control for Cats? Gene Therapy May Offer a Method
A small study uses genetic engineering with the goal of curbing vast stray feline populations. For all the cats who share our homes as companion animals, there is a vast shadow world of strays — a sprawling and fast-breeding crowd. Their lives are plagued by the threat of infectious diseases, predators and fast-moving cars. And they are major predators themselves, hunting down millions of...
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Your Guide to the Majestic, Long Neck Dinosaur
Some dinosaurs needed long necks to reach high in the trees, loading their enormous guts with enough roughage to supply a small forest. These were the dinosaurs with the longest necks, so lengthy in stature that their height reached that of a four-story building while standing upright. Giraffes had nothing on these prehistoric skyscrapers. And there were many species of long-necked dinosaurs. While each...
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Merck Sues Over Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Law
The company is heavily reliant on a cancer drug that could be targeted by a program intended to lower drug prices. The pharmaceutical company Merck on Tuesday sued the federal government over legislation that empowers Medicare for the first time to negotiate prices directly with drugmakers. Merck’s lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, is the drug industry’s most significant move so far to...
After COVID-19, Can mRNA Vaccines Help with Cancer as Well?
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of T lymphocyte cells (smaller round cells) attached to a cancer cell. Credit: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library Advertisement
5 Unique Ways Animals Avoid Getting Eaten
A healthy, balanced diet is a great way to live to a ripe, old age. But even more important is avoiding being part of someone else’s healthy, balanced diet. Few creatures on this planet enjoy the distinction of sitting on top of their local food chain. Even those that rely on killing others for sustenance must sometimes avoid other, bigger predators; for every great...
Birth Control for Cats? Gene Therapy May Offer a Method
A small study uses genetic engineering with the goal of curbing vast stray feline populations. For all the cats who share our homes as companion animals, there is a vast shadow world of strays — a sprawling and fast-breeding crowd. Their lives are plagued by the threat of infectious diseases, predators and fast-moving cars. And they are major predators themselves, hunting down millions of...
Your Guide to the Majestic, Long Neck Dinosaur
Some dinosaurs needed long necks to reach high in the trees, loading their enormous guts with enough roughage to supply a small forest. These were the dinosaurs with the longest necks, so lengthy in stature that their height reached that of a four-story building while standing upright. Giraffes had nothing on these prehistoric skyscrapers. And there were many species of long-necked dinosaurs. While each...
Merck Sues Over Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Law
The company is heavily reliant on a cancer drug that could be targeted by a program intended to lower drug prices. The pharmaceutical company Merck on Tuesday sued the federal government over legislation that empowers Medicare for the first time to negotiate prices directly with drugmakers. Merck’s lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, is the drug industry’s most significant move so far to...
Marvel: Sir Anthony Hopkins says Thor role was ‘pointless acting’
Shutterstock Sir Anthony Hopkins has described his work in Marvel’s Thor films as “pointless acting”. The Port Talbot-born star joined the cast of Thor, Kenneth Branagh’s film version of the Marvel comic in 2011. He played Odin, the father of the titular character, and also appeared in 2013’s Thor: The Dark World and 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. “If you’re sitting in front of a green...
Giant Seaweed ‘Blob’ Could Carry Dangerous Bacteria
Sargassum algae piles up along the shore at a beach in Cancun, Quintana Roo State, Mexico, on May 23, 2023. Credit: Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images Advertisement
Astrud Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema singer dies at 83
Getty Images By Mark Savage Music correspondent, BBC News Astrud Gilberto, the Brazilian bossa nova singer best known for The Girl from Ipanema, has died aged 83. One of Brazil’s biggest stars of the 1960s and 70s, she recorded 16 albums and worked with artists ranging from Quincy Jones to George Michael. Her version of The Girl From Ipanema sold more than five million...
Death Rates among Black People in the U.S. Are Rising after Falling
Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: “Excess Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost among the Black Population in the U.S., 1999–2020,” by César Caraballo et al., in Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 329, No. 19; May 16, 2023 (data) Advertisement
Phillip Schofield: ITV defends duty of care to staff at ‘toxic’ This Morning
This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Paul Glynn & Ian Youngs BBC News An ITV executive has defended the network’s duty of care to staff after the furore over Phillip Schofield’s affair with a much younger colleague. The This Morning host left ITV last month after admitting he lied to bosses...
