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Apr 9, 2020

Key China coronavirus hospital says HIV drug beneficial to patients

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

At the height of the epidemic in the city, Jinyintan was treating close to 500 coronavirus patients, he said. It currently still has 123 under observation, he said. A study published last month in the New England Journal of Medicine, based on a test in Chinese patients with severe COVID-19 at Jinyintan, said that Kaletra, also known as Aluvia, was not effective as a potential treatment.


Last month, Israel approved the licensing of a generic version of Kaletra to treat patients infected with the coronavirus.

Apr 9, 2020

NASA reveals plans for a radio telescope on the farside of the Moon

Posted by in categories: innovation, space

A lunar crater on the farside of the Moon could be turned into a new radio telescope resembling the Death Star from Star Wars, under new plans from NASA.

Funding for the project has come from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Programme, designed to support potentially game changing projects.

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Apr 9, 2020

DoD’s longest-serving employee passes away after 77 years of service

Posted by in categories: business, transportation

Sarkis Tatigian joined the Navy in 1942. He’s been there ever since, until his death this week at the age of 96.

Tatigian — who first enlisted as a radio inspector at the now-defunct Philadelphia Naval Shipyard — went on to become the small business advocate at Naval Sea Systems Command. He had held that title since 1979, six years after he first became eligible for retirement. But he’d been working on the Navy’s small business programs since 1951, two years before the Small Business Administration even existed.

Even well into his 90s, Tatigian reportedly commuted to work at the Washington Navy Yard via public transit every day. When we last spoke to him in late 2017, he had only taken one vacation day that year.

Apr 9, 2020

5G & Covid-19: The origin, explanation, and reason why scientists are concerned

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, internet

A conspiracy theory linking 5G wireless networks to the Covid-19 pandemic is spreading. The theory is false — and psychologists explain why it is still so popular.

Apr 9, 2020

How to get the world from Covid-19 to Covid-Zero with just $8bn | Free to read

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business

Many companies have made strong commitments to support their employees, customers, suppliers and communities through what is perhaps the gravest global crisis since the second world war. And all at a time when they are themselves counting the costs of lockdowns and physical distancing.

Others have joined more directly in fighting the outbreak. Amazon is distributing coronavirus tests, Diageo is making hand sanitiser, while Formula 1 teams are designing ventilators.

But business has a powerful opportunity to go further and play a critical part in resolving the crisis — as well as in managing it — by helping fund the vital research that provides the only viable exit strategy that can bring the world back to business as usual.

Apr 9, 2020

Innovative brain–machine interface set to improve prosthetics and brain research

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience

A brain–machine interface that enables multi-channel recordings of neural activity could improve human prosthetics and enhance understanding of the brain.

Apr 9, 2020

Pfizer clinches coronavirus vaccine deal, sees potential in antiviral treatment

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

It also said it plans to support studies to determine whether existing Pfizer medicines, including its rheumatoid arthritis drug Xeljanz, may provide benefits for those struggling with the COVID-19 respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus. More than a dozen large drugmakers, including Pfizer, have announced plans in recent months to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus, although few if any are likely to reach patients in time to stem the current outbreak. Pfizer first revealed plans to try to develop an antiviral compound for COVID-19 in March, and later said it was working with BioNTech SE (22UAy. F) on a potential vaccine based on messenger RNA technology.


U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc said on Thursday that early data has helped it identify a drug candidate with the potential to help treat patients infected with the novel coronavirus.

Apr 9, 2020

50 Million People May Gather For The ‘Greater American Eclipse,’ The Most Watched Event Ever

Posted by in category: futurism

A total solar eclipse is coming to the US, Canada and Mexico.

Apr 9, 2020

Engineer uses metal-oxide nanomaterials deposited on cloth to wipe out microbes

Posted by in categories: biological, chemistry, engineering, health, nanotechnology, sustainability

In an effort to make highly sensitive sensors to measure sugar and other vital signs of human health, Iowa State University’s Sonal Padalkar figured out how to deposit nanomaterials on cloth and paper.

Feedback from a peer-reviewed paper published by ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering describing her new fabrication technology mentioned the metal-oxide nanomaterials the assistant professor of mechanical engineering was working with—including , cerium oxide and copper oxide, all at scales down to billionths of a meter—also have .

“I might as well see if I can do something else with this technology,” Padalkar said. “And that’s how I started studying antimicrobial uses.”

Apr 9, 2020

China starts 6G development technology a week after 5G launch

Posted by in category: internet

China has officially begun the research and development of 6G technology.

The news came less than a week after the country rolled out its superfast 5G network.

The country’s Technology Bureau has formally set up a team of experts to work on the next-generation mobile internet connection, state media said today.