A clinical report published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week indicated that there were no obvious safety signals among pregnant persons who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, based on their data from the “v-safe after vaccination health checker” surveillance ...Learn More

A Lancet Comment lists some scientific reasons why airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is likely. Here is the brief summary of those reasons:1. The high incidence of super-spreading events suggests the dominance of aerosol transmission;2. Long-range transmission of SARS-CoV-2 ...Learn More

The study data of health care workers in Brazil indicate that single dose of Chinese COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac still works for protecting people from symptomatic COVID-19 mainly caused by the highly transmissible variant known as P.1, showing that the mutations of SARS-CoV-2 has ...Learn More

Scientists are exploring how to edit genomes and even create brand new ones that never existed before, but how close are we to harnessing synthetic life?

The study on hibernation of primates can help us understand metabolic disorders in humans and teach us about how to safely put the human body on pause too, slowing the body’s processes long enough for, say, life-saving surgery or even space travel? Researchers from Duke Lemur ...Learn More