CORONAVIRUS ORIGINS
His grandfather died of pancreatic cancer: This Hyderabad startup founder is using AI to develop a personalised cancer vaccines
Hyderabad-based biotech startup PopVax, founded by Soham Sankaran, is developing AI-powered personalised cancer vaccines using mRNA technology. Inspired partly by his family's experience with pancreatic cancer, he aims to help the immune system identify and attack cancer cells using treatments designed around individual patients' tumour genetics.
MV Odyssey world cruise suspended in Cambodia as Iran war pushes fuel costs to $8,000 per cabin
The MV Odyssey is currently docked in Sihanoukville after suspending its voyage due to increased fuel costs. The operator, Villa Vie Residences, has emphasised financial difficulties leading to the ship's current situation. Passengers were given minimal notice to disembark while seeking temporary accommodation and living arrangements. Residents are expressing discomfort over unexpected disruptions after months aboard the vessel.
Dolly Parton launched a free-book programme in Tennessee in 1995; 30 years later, it has gifted nearly 300 million books to children
Dolly Parton launched the Imagination Library in 1995 to help children in her home county of Sevier County, Tennessee, access books from an early age. Inspired by her father, Robert Lee Parton, who never learned to read or write, the country music star created a programme that mails free, age-appropriate books to enrolled children from birth until they turn five. Over three decades, the initiative expanded beyond Tennessee to reach communities across the United States and other countries. According to the supplied programme fact sheet, the Imagination Library has distributed more than 300 million books to children.
Second plague case in Siberia? Russia responds after WHO presses Moscow for answers over 28-year-old researcher’s death
Russia has rejected claims of a second pneumonic plague case after the death of laboratory worker Darya Shipilova. The World Health Organization sought clarification regarding her death and reports of another employee falling ill. Shipilova worked at a Siberian research institute and passed away from pneumonia of unknown origin. Russian authorities confirmed no connection between her death and pneumonic plague pathogens.
How Russia and the world are responding to possible case of pneumonic plague after lab worker dies
The World Health Organisation has confirmed that Russian authorities reported no cases of plague in Siberia. A laboratory worker at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute recently died from pneumonia. Investigations revealed she had a typical acute respiratory viral infection and not pneumonic plague. Russian officials have completed contact tracing and concluded that the epidemiological situation remains stable. US officials are advising Russia to share more information about the ongoing investigation.
Russia pneumonic plague revives fears of COVID-19: What are chances of virulent disease becoming another worldwide pandemic? Read Experts' opinions
Russia pneumonic plague: The woman died at a hospital in Shelekhov, a town just outside the city of Irkutsk, and its mayor said the hospital was placed under quarantine. The top officials from Russia’s national public health watchdog traveled to the region on Friday.
California Governor Gavin Newsom lists his $7.5 million Sacramento-area mansion: Inside the 8.2-acre Fair Oaks estate with 7 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, tennis court and 5,000-bottle wine cellar
California Governor Gavin Newsom has listed his sprawling 8.2-acre Fair Oaks mansion for $7.5 million, months before his second term ends in January 2027. The luxury estate features seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a tennis court, swimming pool, gym and a 5,000-bottle wine cellar. Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, moved into the Fair Oaks residence in 2019.
US intelligence still divided on origins of coronavirus
According to an unclassified summary, four members of the U.S. intelligence community say with low confidence that the virus was initially transmitted from an animal to a human.
Recent evidence points to natural origin of COVID-19, scientists write in Lancet
The same team of scientists had last year dismissed the lab leak idea as a conspiracy theory in a report also published in The Lancet."New viruses can emerge anywhere... It is time to turn down the heat of the rhetoric and turn up the light of scientific inquiry if we are to be better prepared to stem the next pandemic," they noted.
Coronavirus origins: ‘If nothing went wrong at Wuhan lab, why the obfuscations?’
"In view of a global pandemic with four million deaths, hundreds of millions out of work, and trillions of dollars in economic damage, I think knowing the truth about its origins should be an end in itself," says an internet sleuth tracking the origins of the coronavirus
WHO delegation visits Wuhan market in hunt for coronavirus origin
According to The Hill, Peter Daszak, president of a US-based group EcoHealth Alliance and a member of the delegation, confirmed the visit in a tweet, as did a top official with the International Livestock Research Institute.
WHO experts to wade into tricky territory in hunt for coronavirus' origins
Under the global glare, Beijing delayed access for independent experts into China to probe the origins of the pandemic, reluctant to agree to an inquiry.
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins, promoting theories that Covid originated elsewhere
The government is monitoring scientists' findings and mandating that the publication of any research first be approved by a new task force managed by China's cabinet under direct orders from President Xi Jinping, according to internal documents obtained by The AP. A rare leak from within the government, the dozens of pages of unpublished documents confirm what many have long suspected: The clampdown comes from the top.
China scientists claim virus born in India; West experts refute
Chinese scientists are now arguing that the coronavirus originated in India in July-Aug 2019 when an unbearable heatwave in May-June that year forced animals and humans to share the same water sources.
China questions coronavirus origin to Wuhan ahead of WHO probe
Various outlets of the state-run Chinese media have been carrying reports in recent days stating that a number of imported food products from different countries, including a consignment of fish from India, were found to have traces of the COVID-19 alleging that the virus may have entered China through foreign routes.
US denounces terms for WHO-led inquiry into coronavirus origins
"We are quite literally in the fight of our lifetime as COVID-19 pandemic is causing death and societal disruption," Garrett Grigsby, director of the office of global affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, told the WHO's annual ministerial assembly.
China flaunts French connection to Wuhan lab; Ambivalent on WHO probe into origin of coronavirus
Accusing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of fabricating lies over the involvement of the virology lab in Wuhan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying sought to deflect criticism over its role by highlighting its French connection.
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan lab
On May 3, Pompeo said that the US has "enormous evidence" to show that the coronavirus began in the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Beijing has refused to give international scientists access to learn what happened.
China asks Mike Pompeo to show 'enormous evidence' of COVID-19 originating from Wuhan lab
China on Wednesday dared US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to show "enormous evidence" he claimed to have to prove that the novel coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan and said he has no evidence to back up his claims.
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