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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the approval of a second COVID-19 vaccine ahead of a Phase 3 trial.

Over millions of years fear has kept our ancestors alivenot only our human ancestors but our nonhuman ancestors too.

CIRM announced last year that its first $3 billion of funding has dried up, and now it’s up to voters to decide on November 3 whether to give the agency a second life.

Vascular surgeon and #Surgisphere founder Sapan Desai has inactivated his license in Illinois, where he was facing several malpractice lawsuits, and obtained a new license in Ohio.

ICYMI: The last heath hen, known to locals as Booming Ben, was seen in 1932. Researchers want to try and bring back the bird through a technique called cultured germ cell transmission.

As online learning has become a mainstay because of the pandemic, educators have made great strides in its efficacy, but there are still areas for improvement. Via Times Higher Education:

ICYMI: The detection of the disease in Africa is alarming. Tarekegn Terefe

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While cycling around the world, one of this month's contributors happened upon a group of golden marmots in Pakistan, kicking off a decades-long interest in marmots that persists to this day.

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ICYMI: Viruses can sneak into the brain through the nose, a little-studied path that’s now receiving more attention as details of COVID-19 emerge. https://bit.ly/3kq4j5F

ICYMI: The study did not determine any implications for children’s health, but the authors recommend changing up how parents use baby bottles to reduce the amount of plastic in formula.

Government officials have framed the cuts as a way to fight corruption, but several scientists aren’t convinced.

We want to understand how the virus can disrupt host cell machinery and yet be able to engage ribosomes, be able to engage the trafficking machineryall these things that have been shut off. Dev Majumdar