While new cases are increasing in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new advice for K-12 schools to reopen completely in the autumn. Pfizer has announced intentions to explore boosters and a new Delta-specific vaccine, citing the now-nationally dominant Delta strain. A new intranasal vaccination is being developed, Tokyo…
Sirisha Bandla reached inside a bag attached to her thigh on Sunday morning and pulled out a plastic tube holding a mustard seedling and a chemical preservative. The preservative enveloped the tiny plant as she turned a knob on one end of the tube, stopping all biological activity. She operated on two similar tubes over…
A new form of age “clock” can evaluate chronic inflammation and forecast if someone is in danger of age-related diseases including cardiovascular and neurological disease. The clock gauges a person’s biological age, which takes into account their health and might be greater or lower than their chronological age. The inflammatory aging clock (iAge), published in…
Experts said China had grabbed the lead in quantum communications after a team of Chinese scientists used entangled photons from the country’s Micius satellite to make the world’s first quantum-secured video chat in 2017. According to a new study, lead has also been extended to quantum computing. Physicists from the University of Science and Technology…