Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Dow Plunges 1,000 Points as Coronavirus Cases Outside China Jump
February 24th, 2020Oil down 4.9% at the moment. Via: USA Today: Global financial markets were jolted Monday after a significant rise in coronavirus cases outside of China revived concerns about a potential economic fallout from the outbreak. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 1,000 points, or 3.3%, erasing its gains for the year. The losses puts the […]
Costa Mesa Granted Temporary Restraining Order to Stop Feds from Using Local Facility to Quarantine People with Coronavirus
February 23rd, 2020Why would the government want to move people infected with this thing into a densely populated area? Hmm. Via: Los Angeles Times: A federal judge Friday night granted the city of Costa Mesa’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop a possible plan by state and federal agencies to use the Fairview Developmental Center […]
Coronavirus: The Pandemic Is Accelerating Worldwide
February 21st, 2020Via: Peak Prosperity:
CORONAVIRUS: 10 ITALIAN TOWNS IN LOCKDOWN
February 21st, 2020Via: AFP: Authorities in northern Italy on Friday ordered the closure of schools, bars and other public spaces in 10 towns following a flurry of new coronavirus cases. Five doctors and 10 other people tested positive for the virus in Lombardy, after apparently frequenting the same bar and group of friends, with two other cases […]
Aided by Machine Learning, Scientists Find a Novel Antibiotic Able to Kill Superbugs in Mice
February 21st, 2020Via: STAT: A study published Thursday in the journal Cell describes how researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used machine learning to identify a molecule that appears capable of countering some of the world’s most formidable pathogens. When tested in mice, the molecule, dubbed halicin, effectively treated the gastrointestinal bug Clostridium difficile (C. diff), […]
Coronavirus Infections Outside Of China Are Growing Exponentially
February 20th, 2020Via: Peak Prosperity:
Cruise Ship Is a Coronavirus Factory
February 19th, 2020Via: The Times: Japan’s incompetent quarantining of thousands of passengers on a British cruise ship created a “coronavirus machine” that risks further spreading the disease, one of the country’s leading experts has said. Kentaro Iwata, a professor of infectious disease, condemned the decision to release most of the passengers following two weeks of quarantine today […]
How China Is Working to Quarantine the Truth About the Coronavirus
February 19th, 2020“Censorship, diversion, and lying.” Google’s core principals? *I crack myself up* This piece is useful in understanding state behavior, in general, and their large, lapdog media and social networking organizations. Via: DefenseOne: In its battle to contain the coronavirus, the Chinese government has undertaken a wide range of measures, from shutting down cities to using […]
China Deploys 40 Mobile Incinerators to Wuhan
February 19th, 2020In other news: China’s Coronavirus Figures Don’t Add Up. ‘This Never Happens With Real Data’: A statistical analysis of China’s coronavirus casualty data shows a near-perfect prediction model that data analysts say isn’t likely to naturally occur, casting doubt over the reliability of the numbers being reported to the World Health Organization. … Barron’s re-created […]
A Virus Called Wuhan-400 Causes Outbreak in Dean Koontz Thriller from 1981
February 17th, 2020Via: South China Morning Post: The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400.
