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Covid mutation

January 30, 2021

b117 or b.1.1.1.7 mutation
D614G mutation

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/world/covid-mutation.html

Evidence Builds That an Early Mutation Made the Pandemic Harder to Stop

Scientists were initially skeptical that a mutation made the coronavirus more contagious. But new research has changed many of their minds.

LabFinder | Need a Blood Test, X-Ray or MRI? It’s FREE!

January 29, 2021

https://www.labfinder.com/
15′ covid test

Article

January 28, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/28/covid-vaccine-variant-south-africa/?outputType=amp

Sounds promising! By this spring

January 28, 2021

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/26/politics/biden-vaccine-supply-tuesday/index.html

Flying beyond mach 5 is back, decades after the original need-for-speed arms race ended: Going Hypersonic – IEEE Journals & Magazine

January 26, 2021

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9271806

When a Virus Is the Cure | The New Yorker

January 26, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/12/21/when-a-virus-is-the-cure

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To make matters worse, fears of antibiotic resistance have, in recent decades, created a perverse incentive in medical research: new antibiotics, to remain effective, must be used sparingly, as so-called antibiotics of last resort. As a result, it is almost impossible to recoup the cost of developing them.
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Great article!… But I don’t see how phages will solve the economic conundrum: the “perverse incentive [that]…new antibiotics, to remain effective, must be used sparingly…As a result, it is almost impossible to recoup the cost of developing them.”

Acronymify! – Automatically generate fun acronyms for your project

January 24, 2021

https://acronymify.com/
makes acronyms

Does Double-Masking Help Slow the Spread of Covid? – The New York Times

January 24, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/health/coronavirus-masks-transmission.html

Sophia (robot) – Wikipedia

January 24, 2021

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(robot)

Platypus genome

January 23, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/science/platypus-genome-echidna.amp.html