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Data of over 100 mn users exposed via 3rd-party Cloud services
According to Check Point Research (CPR), it recently discovered that in the last few months, many application developers have left their data and millions of users' private information exposed by not following best practices when configuring and integrating third party cloud-services into their applications.
Strong links between our hormones and Covid-19 confirmed
A team of scientists from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in Spain looked at the available evidence with respect to Covid-19 across a number of endocrine conditions and related factors: diabetes, obesity, nutrition, hypocalcemia, vitamin D insufficiency, vertebral fractures, adrenal insufficiency, as well as pituitary/thyroid issues and sex hormones.
Skyroot Aerospace targets Vikram launch in a year, raises $11m
"We are aggressively targeting a launch to orbit in 12 months. Other than unavoidable delays due to the lockdowns, most of our development is on track," Pawan Kumar Chandana, Co-Founder and CEO, told IANS. "Our third stage (simply put rocket's third engine) is nearing completion and other two stages are in various phases of manufacturing. We plan to go for full stage level testing soon," Chandana added.
NASA launches mission to study climate, ocean currents
The Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) mission will deploy its suite of water- and air-borne instruments to show what's happening just below the ocean's surface. The S-MODE team hopes to learn more about small-scale movements of ocean water such as eddies. These whirlpools span about 6.2 miles or 10 kilometres, slowly moving ocean water in a swirling pattern.
Heat, soap, alcohol treatment effective against Covid variants
The team, led by researchers of the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB), analysed how long the variants remain infectious on surfaces made of steel, silver, copper and on face masks and how they can be rendered harmless by means of soap, heat or alcohol. It turned out that both variants, as well as the wild type virus, could be inactivated when treated with at least 30 per cent alcohol for at least 30 seconds.
New antiviral with 99.9% efficacy against Covid-19 developed
Traditional antivirals, which include Tamiflu, zanamivir and remdesivir, reduce symptoms and help people recover earlier. The new antiviral approach used gene-silencing RNA technology called siRNA (small-interfering RNA) to attack the virus' genome directly.
NASA-ESA Sun-watching spacecraft captures first solar eruption
On February 12, the Solar Orbiter caught sight of coronal mass ejection, or CME, NASA said in a statement. The CME was captured by NASA instrument, the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) onboard the spacecraft. SoloHI watches the solar wind, dust, and cosmic rays that fill the space between the Sun and the planets. It used one of its four detectors at less than 15 per cent of its normal cadence to reduce the amount of data acquired.
Covid-19 can infect cells in eye: Study
A new study by the Mount Sinai Hospital researchers found that cells in the eye can be directly infected by SARS-CoV-2. While aerosol transmission is thought to be the primary route of spread, viral particles have been detected in ocular fluid suggesting the eye may be a vulnerable point of viral entry.
Covid monoclonal antibodies cut hospitalisation, death risk by 60%
Monoclonal antibodies are a type of medication that seeks out the Covid-19 virus in a person's body and blocks it from infecting their cells and replicating. The study, led by University of Pittsburgh researchers found that people aged 65 and older who received bamlanivimab -- a monoclonal antibody -- were nearly three times less likely to be hospitalised or die in the following month, compared to their untreated counterparts.
IISc finds new blood-based biomarker to discern between bacterial, viral infections
This new study is published in EBioMedicine, a journal that publishes research works of translational biomedical research world over. According to this journal, the researchers have developed a test using patient blood transcriptomes and sophisticated computational modelling.
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