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More Monsters at the Door
March 25, 2021
With the catastrophy of the Covid19 pandemic seared into our collective psyche, epidemiologists are now forming a picture of what new horrors the future may bring. There is substantial concern within the scientific community over the possible emergence of new disease vectors; there is even a name for the illness caused by this yet to be discovered entity; "Disease X." It has been estimated that there are 1.6 million different viruses on the earth, of which only 263 have shown to cause disease. Scientists at EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organization that "develops science-based solutions to prevent pandemics and promote conservation" are determined to build an overall picture of the high risk areas of the global pandemic map, tentatively referred to as the "Global Virome Projec...
Lenzilumab and Coronavirus
October 20, 2020
While the search for an effective vaccine against Coronavirus gobbles up most of the public attention in the ongoing battle against Covid19, so-called game changing "breakthroughs" may come from drugs that block the lethal effects of the virus in the generation of "cytokine storms" when the body ...
Perspectives on Coronavirus
May 31, 2020
The unpleasant message is finally sinking in, despite the unwillingness of certain politicians to accept it. The will be no widely available safe, and effective vaccine for at least a year, and perhaps longer, even much longer. The earlier, optimistic predictions of a workable vaccine that would ...
The story of Golden Rice
October 21, 2019
Golden Rice, a genetically modified organism, has been the subject of a years long and multi million dollar struggle to see the light of day. First proposed at a rice conference in 1984, the term refers to a strain of rice modified to produce beta carotene, a vitamin A precursor. Currently the ab...