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by Michael It was fun while it lasted. We actually had quite a few months without an official “global health emergency” to be concerned about, but now that streak is over. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization announced that Monkeypox has officially been classified as a “public health emergency of international concern”. Health officials have lost …
In 2014, scientists studying radioactive mutant wolves in Chernobyl found genes that might inform cancer prevention in humans. “In 2014, Cara Love, an evolutionary biologist at Princeton University, set out with a team of researchers to understand how animals have been able to survive the cancer-causing radiation. Love and her team took blood samples from …
The recent revelation about a Chinese lab creating a mutant COVID-19 strain with a 100% kill rate in “humanized” mice has sent shockwaves through the scientific community and beyond. The virus, named GX_P2V, was designed to mimic the behavior of SARS-CoV-2 in a unique model using mice with genetic makeup similar to humans. The study, …
Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice. The …