[ad_1] Scientists first used Nobel Prize-winning technology to kill cancer cells in mice. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have used the CRISPR / Cas9 system to treat aggressive cancers and believe their success marks another bold step in the fight against the disease. CRISPR / Cas9 is a gene editing tool that gives … Read more
[ad_1] This is an urgent transcript. The copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOOD MAN: This is Democracy now! The quarantine report. I am Amy Goodman. As the coronavirus pandemic escalates, a third major pharmaceutical company has injected good news into the race for a potential vaccine. It’s AstraZeneca. He says late … Read more
[ad_1] © Alexa Aragonez / Alexa Aragonez The Aragonez family hosted a relaxed indoor birthday reunion in early November. A few days later, all of them tested positive for the coronavirus. Enriqueta Aragonez lay down in a hospital bed in Arlington, Texas, with plastic tubes snaking from her nose and pneumonia in both of her … Read more
[ad_1] Photo: Solarseven (Shutterstock) Last week, when I discussed my hopes and goals for the next year with my mother, the need for a vaccine was clearly mentioned. “Uh, I don’t take it at first, and neither you, ”she told me. “We will leave their take it and see what happens“-“thim” obviously meaning white people. … Read more
[ad_1] Dan McAteer describes his reaction more as a feeling of relief than elation when his phone rang on Monday morning with a push alert that the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine was up to 90% effective. Several months after becoming one of thousands of volunteers in the Covid-19 vaccine trials, the 23-year-old student is trying to … Read more
[ad_1] One in three patients at Decatur Morgan Hospital tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday as cases continue to skyrocket in northern Alabama to new highs since the pandemic outbreak. “A lot of people still think we’re Chicken Little,” Judy Smith, a northern Alabama administrator for the Alabama Department of Public Health, said Monday at … Read more
[ad_1] The Navajo had 2,304.41 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people at its peak in May, compared to New York State’s rate of 1,806 cases per 100,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. From the start of the pandemic until November 22, the Navajo Nation has recorded 15,039 cases out of a population of … Read more
[ad_1] A record 3 million new cases of coronavirus were already reported in the United States in November – but millions of Americans have still defied health warnings against air travel to take flights this weekend. Even though there is still a week to go, November has already seen more new cases than any other … Read more
[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: The daily numbers we report do not match the numbers the state reports for each day. Every day at 10 a.m., we take the previous day’s digits from 10 a.m. and subtract them with the current state digits at 10 a.m. Rather than reporting a day late, we want to give you … Read more
[ad_1] Lung cancer occurs when abnormal cells in your lungs start to grow out of control. There are usually no signs or symptoms in the early stages of lung cancer. But, as the cancer progresses and spreads to nearby areas, symptoms tend to surface. One of the less common symptoms associated with lung cancer is … Read more