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    Corbevax - A Covid vaccine that could be a Global Game Changer

    A team from Texas has introduced CORBEVAX. It uses old but proven vaccine technology and can be manufactured far more easily than most, if not all, of the COVID-19 vaccines in use today. "CORBEVAX is a game changer," says Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities...
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    Sorry... Overload

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    GoldFish can Drive.....

    A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel shows that fish can drive.... (probably better than the pathetic road hoggers). This new video shows a goldfish driving a water-filled, motorized "car" from one end of a room to another, bobbing and weaving to avoid obstacles...
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    The World of Birds in 8K UHD

    Not a documentary... Collection of birds with natural sounds. PS: The best in my life was Lake Nakuru -Kenya - Probably half a million of beutifu Flamingos
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    The Chinese Talibans at work.....

    The 99-foot-tall Buddha statue and 45 prayer wheels were destroyed by local Chinese authorities in Draggo county, Kham, Tibet. Even though local Tibetans have legal documents for the construction of the giant Buddha statue, Chinese authorities demolished it six years after it was built. Chinese...
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    2022 & the Third Wave.....

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    The New IHU Variant in France.

    Quoted from a recent preprint.... SARS-CoV-2 variants have become a major virological, epidemiological and clinical concern, particularly with regard to the risk of escape from vaccine-induced immunity. Here we describe the emergence of a new variant. For twelve SARS-CoV-positive patients...
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    A High Level Of Cunning Is Not A High Level of Intelligence

    The Rajapaksa family cannot be credited with intelligence or wisdom. But, they have village cunning. Cunning can deceive an ill-educated mass who have been led to believe that the Country is in peril, “Buddhism is in danger and the Sinhala race will be a minority”. That is the slogan, which of...
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    Ko Apata Gopallek - Nanda Malini

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    Six Little Stories with Lots of Meanings

    Once all villagers decided to pray for rain. On the day of prayer, all the people gathered, but only one boy came up with an umbrella. That is faith. When you throw babies in the air, they laugh because they know that you will catch them. That is trust. Every night we go to bed without any...
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    Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex

    FYI. This is posted because of the misinformation posted in this forum. This is a recent study with 42,200,614 people aged 13 years or more. ABSTRACT In an updated self-controlled case series analysis of 42,200,614 people aged 13 years or more, we evaluate the association between COVID-19...
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    Study with K18-hACE2 Mice shows that Omicron is clinically less severe...

    Studies done at the University of Liverpool with K18-hACE2 mice shows that the Omicron variant is less severe. (Note : The K18-hACE2 transgenic mice express human ACE2, the receptor used by SARS-CoV to gain entry to cells. The human keratin 18 (KRT18) promoter directs expression to epithelia...
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    Covid can spread through cell-to-cell transmission

    A team at the Ohio State University has found that Covid virus has adopted a stealth move.... spreading through cell-to-cell transmission. "Significance It is currently unknown if SARS-CoV-2 can spread through cell–cell contacts, and if so, the underlying mechanisms and implications. In this...
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    First Omicron Death in the US

    The first confirmed death from the Omicron variant in the U.S. was a reinfection. (24thDecember 2021) The man, who was in his 50s and lived in Harris County, Texas, was unvaccinated and had previously been infected with COVID-19. He recently contracted the virus again, and it was confirmed as...
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    Merry Christmas

    Wish all members and their families a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful New Year! Peace, Joy, Happiness and above all - Good Health throughout.... :yes:
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    Omicron - Monoclonal Antibodies are ineffective.

    A new study shows that the Monoclonal antibodies by Regeneron, Lilly, and Celltrion completely lost neutralizing activity when faced with Omicron. However, those offered by AstraZeneca and Vir Biotechnology retained partial activity. The researchers suggest that more research identifying...
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    The Coronavirus in a Tiny Drop

    Just watch the beauty of the simulation...only posssible with the power of modern computing. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/01/science/coronavirus-aerosol-simulation.html
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    Korean scientists develop an Omicron specific test that detects the variant in 20 minutes.

    POSTECH announced on the 10th that a research team led by Professor Lee Jung-Wook of the Department of Chemical Engineering has developed molecular diagnostic technology that can detect the Omicron variant in just 20-30 minutes. It also detects the "Stealth Omicron," which is a bit difficult to...
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    The Muon Paradox & Einstein's Special Relativity

    A well presented video anyone could understand....

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