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Covid-19 UK: ‘Vaccines AND masks are best way to protect ourselves’ after Freedom Day

Vaccines AND masks are best way to protect ourselves after Freedom Day, says scientist behind Oxford University’s Covid vaccine Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert says wearing masks indoors is ‘a sign of respect’  The mandate on wearing masks will be dropped on ‘Freedom Day’ on Monday  Boris Johnson urged people to continue wearing masks in busy… Read More: Covid-19 UK: ‘Vaccines AND masks are best way to protect… »

Would you eat meat products that were grown in a lab?

“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Nine years before Sir Winston Churchill became British prime minister, he wrote a 4000-word article about his predictions for what the future of the world may look like… Read More: Would you eat meat products that were grown in a… »

Hong Kong biotech start-up Prenetics plans $1.3 billion SPAC merger

Signage for Prenetics, a Hong Kong-based biotechnology company, at the company’s laboratory in Hong Kong, China, on Jan. 26, 2018. Anthony Kwan| Bloomberg | Getty Images Hong Kong biotech company Prenetics is set to merge with Artisan Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company, in a deal that will value the new entity at $ 1.3… Read More: Hong Kong biotech start-up Prenetics plans $1.3 billion SPAC merger »

Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak

Dr. Eddie Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School helped Pancho, a man paralyzed since age 20, speak through an implant in his brain that connects to a computer program.Credit…Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak In a once… Read More: Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak »