The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted a researcher at Tel Aviv University a patent for technology that he says could lead to the development of a vaccine for COVID-19 in a matter of months. “The vaccine targets the novel coronavirus’s Achilles’ heel, its Receptor Binding Motif (RBM), a critical structure that enables…
By Storm Gifford New York Daily News | Apr 18, 2020 | 7:29 PM This is an undated photo of Simha Benshai (center), who died from coronavirus at a Tel Aviv hospital.(Elisheva Stern/AP) While thousands of loved ones around the world are denied the opportunity to say final goodbyes to dying coronavirus victims, one Israeli…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…