Australia

A growing number of Australians have been “massacred” by rogue cosmetic surgeons who operate with little fear of retribution because of the total failure of the national health regulator, a Labor senator has said. As a crisis in the cosmetic surgery industry reaches tipping point, Senator Deborah O’Neill has accused the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation …

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Australia’s 500 native beetles evolved with Australia’s native fauna and enjoy dung that is often hard and stringy. They don’t like sloppy cattle dung. If left untreated, livestock manure piles up and is problematic as it causes an increase in the number of flies. So dung beetles have been imported to eat and bury cattle …

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Here’s a quick summary of the COVID-19 statistics for each Australian jurisdiction for Friday 26 August. You can get a more detailed visual breakdown via ABC’s Charting the Spread story here. This list will be updated throughout the day, so if you don’t see your state or territory, check back later. You can access the …

The latest numbers of COVID-19 cases from across states and territories Read More »

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The home as a new frontier for the treatment of COVID-19: the case of anti-inflammatories Read More »

How many times in the last 18 months have you seen a map like the one above? It looks like a population density map, but it’s actually a case total for COVID19 rates from the Johns Hopkins Center for Coronavirus Research (accessed May 24, 2022). As of mid-May 2022, there have been more than 355 …

Investigating the links between the rate of new cases, mutations and selection of the SARS-CoV2 virus Read More »

The world’s most powerful telescope has made its first observations of a planet beyond our solar system, heralding a new era of astronomy in which distant worlds can be scanned for signs of life. The observations, from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, provide new insights into the formation of the planet, a hot gas giant …

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Cambridge University researchers have created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a brain, a beating heart and the foundations of all the body’s other organs, a new way to recreate the early stages of life . The team, led by Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, developed the embryo model without eggs or sperm and instead …

‘Synthetic’ embryo with brain and beating heart created from multiple stem cells by Cambridge scientists Read More »

Japan’s top police officer has said he will resign to take responsibility for security lapses that led to the fatal shooting last month of former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Itaru Nakamura said on Thursday he intended to resign as head of the national police agency to give the organization a “fresh start”, weeks after Abe …

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In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers examined the relationship between cell-mediated or T-lymphocyte-mediated immunity and the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. . Study: SARS-CoV-2-reactive IFN-γ-producing CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in blood do not correlate with clinical severity in unvaccinated critical COVID-19 patients. Image credit: Design_Cells/Shutterstock background …

What is the association between T cell-mediated immune responses and severity of COVID-19? Read More »