Cindy Alverez

Coronavirus Has Led To Some Interesting Innovations, For Instance, The Upper Body Wear Called Micrashell, Which Is Designed To Enable People To Attend Large Events Like Concerts. Micrashell Comes With A Built-in N95 Air Filter, A Soft Helmet And Face Shield, Internal Speaker System, And A Supply System For Drinking Or Vaping Without Removing The Helmet.

Ying Ying And Le Le, Both 14-Year-Old Pandas, Living Together In A Hong Kong Zoo For 13 Years, Have Finally Successfully Mated On 4/6/2020, Probably Thanks To The Quietness Due To COVID-19. However, Whether In Captivity Or In The Wild, Giant Pandas Rarely Show The Desire Or Skill To Mate, Which Is Impeding Their Survival.

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This Recent Data May Be A Welcome Relief, As It Indicates No Direct Spread From A COVID-19 Infected Mother To An Infant Before Birth, A Process Called “Vertical Transmission.” This May Imply That The Babies Infected In Wuhan And London May Have Been Exposed To The Virus Via Conventional Means. Only Time And More Studies Will Tell.

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A New Born, In London, Is Now Said, To The Best Of Knowledge, To Be The Youngest Person To Contract The Coronavirus Within Minutes After Birth. This Has Also Prompted The Question On How Babies Contract The Disease? Is It In The Womb Or Via Conventional Process, From The Mother, After Birth? Coronavirus Has Killed >5000 People Globally.

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More Advances On Cancer Treatment. More Than A Thousand Scientists, In 37 Countries, After More Than A Decade, Have Now Completed 99% Of “The 100,000-Piece Of Jigsaw Puzzles” That Is Cancer. This Feat Would Enable Cancer Treatment To Be Tailored To Each Patients’ Unique Tumour Or Help In Developing Ways For Catching Cancer Earlier. Nice!

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Researchers Have Discovered A T-Cell With A New Type Of T-Cell Receptor (TCR) That Recognizes A Molecule, MR1, Which Appears On Surfaces Of Both Healthy And Many Cancer Cells. But The TCR Equipped T-Cells, However, Kill Only Cancer Cells Of Any Type With MR1. Researchers Are Hopeful The Treatment Will Be Ready In A Few Years.

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Interesting To Find Living Fishes That Walk. Scientists, While Sampling The DNA Of The Only Known Walking Shark Species To Estimate When They Evolved, Found Four New Shark Species. The Youngest Of The Walking Shark Is Said To Have Evolved < 2 Mya, Which’s Fast By Evolutionary Scale, Majorly Contradicting Belief That Sharks Evolve Slowly.

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10 Years To The End Of 2019 Has Been Confirmed By Three Major Agencies: Nasa, Noaa, And The UK Met Office To Be The Warmest Decade On Record. And The Main Culprit For This Temperature Record Is The Carbon Emission from Human Activities. Scientists Are Also Indicating The Year 2019 To Be One Of The 5 Warmest Years, From 2015, On Record.

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The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) On Thursday, 12/12/2019, Approved A 3 Digits Suicide Prevention Hotline Number, 988, To Help Improve Mental Health Support, Reduce Stigma, Save Lives, and Ease The Pressure On The 911 Number. Some Folks Also Want Texting Capability Added To The Hotline For Young People Who Seem To Prefer It.

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Recently Discovered Penguin Species Kupoupou Stilwelli, In New Zealand, May Be The Missing Link Btw Modern Penguins And The Extinct Human-Sized (>5Ft Tall) Penguins, E.G., Crossvallia Waiparensis. Kupoupou Is The Oldest Known Penguin, Similar In Size To Modern Penguins, Which lived Around 60-62.5 Mya After Dinosaur Extinction 66 Mya.

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