COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta

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October 25, 2021

Vaccines COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta Companies are updating vaccines and testing them on people to prepare for whatever comes next in the pandemic By Emily Waltz,Nature magazine

Astronomy NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Will Face '29 Days on the Edge' The observatory must complete about 50 major deployments after liftoff By Elizabeth Howell,SPACE.com

Space Exploration Senate Debates Uncertain Future of U.S. Spaceflight A congressional hearing about NASA's budget and activities offered more questions than answers about the International Space Station, orbital debris hazards and returning astronauts to the moon By Meghan Bartels,SPACE.com

Anthropology Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021. By Christopher Intagliata | 02:49

Animals The Venus's Flower Basket's Weird Fluid Dynamics Explained A deep-sea sponge's unique structure helps it eat and mate while reducing drag By Maddie Bender

Animals Giant Lemurs Are the First Mammals (Besides Us) Found To Use Rhythm Indris' dramatic family 'songs' show repeatable timing patterns By Jack Tamisiea

Health Care We Need to Ground Truth Assumptions about Gene Therapy Researchers, practitioners and patients must balance the discipline's promise with its reality By Marla Broadfoot

Reproduction What Dune Reveals about Reproductive Control and Eugenics A new adaption offers an opportunity to revisit the overlooked biology in Herbert's classic tale By Andrew J. Mongue,Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein

Medicine Pathogen-Sensing Mask Could Detect COVID Infection Freeze-dried genetic circuits could reveal the presence of SARS-CoV-2, Ebola, MRSA, and more By Simon Makin

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QUOTE OF THE DAY "At some point, inevitably, we're going to have to make variant vaccines -- if vaccines are the way population immunity will be maintained -- but we're not at the point where we can confidently predict the evolution of the virus." Paul Bieniasz, virologist at the Rockefeller University

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