In 10 seconds? Farmers could grow almost 50% more rice and potato with a human gene added to the genome of the crops, according to a study. This is good news for millions of people whose staples are threatened by climate change....
In 10 seconds? According to a recent study falling ill with COVID-19 does not guarantee that everyone would “seroconvert” against future infections by the coronavirus. This might be due to age or the amount of viral particles in t...
In 10 seconds? Microwave heat can create nanoparticles to precisely deliver drugs inside the body, vital for Covid-vaccines and improving cancer chemotherapy. So, what’s the breakthrough? Researchers used microwave heat to produc...
Just like other vaccines, mRNA vaccines teach the body to defeat disease, but in a radically new way (mRNA stands for messenger RNA and its role is to convey genetic information to ‘molecular factories’ in our bodies where protein...
There are at least half a dozen COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development and testing. These include whole virus vaccines, recombinant subunit vaccines and next-generation nucleic acid vaccines....