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Amateur investigators claim to break Wuhan lab secrets
"Thanks to DRASTIC, we now know that the WIV had an extensive collection of coronaviruses gathered over many years of foraging in the bat caves and that many of them -- including the closest-known relative to the pandemic virus, SARS-CoV-2 -- came from a mineshaft where three men died from a suspected SARS-like disease in 2012," Newsweek reported.
NASA to study 'lost habitable' world of Venus
The two missions were selected, based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility of their development plans, from four mission concepts that NASA picked in February 2020 as part of the agency's Discovery 2019 competition. The project teams will now work to finalise their requirements, designs, and development plans.
Researchers to culture living heart cells on space station
The investigation, MVP Cell-03, cultured heart precursor cells on the ISS to study how microgravity affects the number of cells produced and how many of them survive. These precursor cells have potential for use in disease modelling, drug development, and regenerative medicine, such as using cultured heart cells to replenish those damaged or lost due to cardiac disease.
Covid-19 not natural, created by Chinese scientists in Wuhan lab: Study
The research, conducted by British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Birger Sorensen, is forthcoming in the scientific journal Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery, the DailyMail.com reported on Friday. In the 22-page paper, the researchers describe their months-long "forensic analysis" into experiments done at the Wuhan lab between 2002 and 2019.
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover snaps shining clouds on Red Planet
The atmosphere on Mars is usually thin, dry and cloudy days are rare. And clouds are typically found at the planet's equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest from the Sun in its oval-shaped orbit. But the scientists noticed clouds forming over NASA's Curiosity rover earlier than expected, one full Martian year ago - two Earth years.
China's cargo craft successfully docks with space station module
At 5.01 a.m. (Beijing Time), Tianzhou-2 and Tianhe completed computer-orchestrated rendezvous and docking, Xinhua news agency quoted the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) as saying. The whole process took approximately eight hours, it added. The Long March-7 Y3 rocket, carrying Tianzhou-2, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of the southern island province of Hainan at 8.55 p.m., on Saturday.
Navigation glitch sends NASA's Mars helicopter on excursion
However, Ingenuity was able to maintain flight and land safely on the surface at the intended landing location, the US space agency said on Thursday. Approximately 54 seconds into its sixth flight on May 22, at an altitude of 33 feet (10 metres), it suffered a glitch in the pipeline of images being delivered by the navigation camera.
NASA to probe cosmic secrets using exploding stars
Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries, providing a window onto the universe's distant past and hazy present. Earlier known as Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, it is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA's first Chief of Astronomy. Roman's supernova survey will help clear up clashing measurements of how fast the universe is currently expanding.
Blood cancer patients can fight Covid with T cells: Study
"It's clear T cells are critical in terms of the early infection and to help control the virus, but we also showed that they can compensate for B cell and antibody responses, which blood cancer patients are likely missing because of the drugs," said Alexander C. Huang, Assistant Professor of Hematology-Oncology at the varsity's Perelman School of Medicine.
Covid raises heart attack risk in people with high cholesterol
Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a common genetic condition that increases an individual's risk for cardiovascular disease by up to 20-fold due to lifelong elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, also confirms that Covid-19 increases heart attack rates
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