These Vaccines May Be Ready to Take On New COVID Variants

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February 25, 2022

Vaccines These Vaccines May Be Ready to Take On New COVID Variants Novel types of jabs could enhance T-cell immunity or protect against emerging strains By Cormac Sheridan,Nature Biotechnology

Fossil Fuels Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Adds Urgency to Europe's Green Power Transition The conflict has driven home the risk of relying on Russian gas, particularly for countries that see it as a bridge to renewable energy By Sara Schonhardt,E&E News

Drug Use Doctors Prescribing Opioids in Good Faith Should Not Be Prosecuted The Supreme Court will consider a case that has had a chilling effect on medical practice By Maia Szalavitz

Policy The Controversial China Initiative Is Ending, and Researchers Are Relieved The U.S. Department of Justice announced major changes to the espionage-protection program, but scientists hope for further acknowledgement of the damage done By Natasha Gilbert,Max Kozlov,Nature magazine

Defense Russia-Ukraine Conflict Prompted U.S. to Develop Autonomous Drone Swarms, 1,000-Mile Cannon The U.S. military has new technology on the drawing board in response to warfare trends previously demonstrated in the region By Jason Sherman

Genetics Desert Plants' Adaptations Help Them Thrive Genes found in the flora could help crops and biofuels survive more drastic extremes By Susan Cosier

Climate Change Lyme and Other Tick-borne Diseases Are on the Rise--But Why? The complex interplay of tick ecology, land use and climate may be enabling the spread of the pathogens they carry By Ula Chrobak,Knowable Magazine

Policy Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, Not a Crime Some states are going to war against young transgender people By Kristina R. Olson

Pollution How Hong Kong 'Sees' Invisible Tailpipe Emissions, and Pulls Polluters Off the Road The city has deployed a system of sensors to flag high polluting vehicles. Nearly all have been repaired, helping to clean the city's air. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:26

Public Health COVID Still Threatens Millions of Immunocompromised People People who suffer from diseases or take treatments that leave them highly vulnerable to COVID fear being left behind as the country drops pandemic restrictions By Victoria Knight,Kaiser Health News

Space Exploration China Plans Asteroid Missions, Space Telescopes and a Moon Base In the next five years, the nation hopes to launch a robotic craft to an asteroid, two lunar missions and an orbital observatory By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Pharmaceuticals Chewing Gum with GMO Could Reduce the Spread of COVID Gum carrying a protein produced by genetically modified lettuce traps SARS-CoV-2 By Abdullah Iqbal

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Omicron Is Here: A Lack of COVID Vaccines Is Partly Why Global players need to get more vaccines to African nations and convince more people to take them By Michael Head | November 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "I think everyone agrees that coronavirus isn't going anywhere soon." Helen Horton, chief research officer at Touchlight

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