It’s not an understatement to say that the entire nation’s hopes are focused on what’s happening in a Maryland laboratory – step one in manufacturing a potential coronavirus vaccine. Sean Kirk, executive vice president of Emergent BioSolutions, explained to correspondent Martha Teichner how a bioreactor is used to create the ingredients needed in
The United States will know by the end of the year or the beginning of whether a coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation s leading infectious diseases doctor, said Monday. Multiple vaccine candidates are being studied, and if things go the way it looks like they re going,
He’s been dubbed Dishy Rishi , Britain’s economic Jedi and Santa Claus in hazmat in recent months, but most often he is referred to as a possible future prime minister . Rishi Sunak s star has been rising steadily since he became chancellor in February. Within weeks he found himself tackling the greatest
NASA recently announced that it would be renaming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the trailblazing first Black female engineer at the space agency made famous by the film Hidden Figures. Current NASA staff say that she remains an inspiration in both the day-to-day operations and the broader overarching goals
Organisers of a Van Gogh show in Toronto have had a novel idea: offering art lovers a drive-in option during the Coronavirus crisis. As Canada’s largest city gradually comes out of lockdown, the exhibit began this week with two viewing areas in a huge Toronto warehouse: one area with social distancing circles on
Britain s National Health Service has given secretive U.S. tech firm Palantir access to private personal data of millions of British citizens, according to a contract published online. The NHS health records that Palantir has access to can include a patient s name, age, address, health conditions, treatments and medicines, allergies, tests, scans,
The dream of being able to access the internet, no matter where you live might become a reality sooner than you might think. In , SpaceX, the company owned by technology billionaire Elon Musk, announced it was developing such a service called Starlink. But what is Starlink, exactly? Keep reading as we reveal
Private health insurers, including many the White House prodded to waive full treatment costs for patients diagnosed with coronavirus, haven’t committed to extending those generous coverage policies to patients dealing with virus-related conditions weeks or months later. Some that only cover in-network care are rejecting bills from out-of-network specialists. The death toll, as
Britain is poised to shutter individual towns in the event of a rise in confirmed cases. And the government has already locked down the English town of Leicester, where textile factories may be behind an alarming jump in infections, just as the rest of the country celebrated the easing of restrictions. Serbia reimposed
Umar Kamani, son of Boohoo founder Mahmud Kamani and founder of PrettyLittleThing, with Sofia Richie at the Boohoo x Taylor Hill Tea Party at The Beverly Hills Hotel on October . P Fast fashion retailer Boohoo BOO.L has announced an independent investigation into its supply chain, following allegations of illegal and unsafe working