What's Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines?

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January 14, 2022

Vaccines What's Holding Up New Omicron Vaccines? Vaccine makers worry yet another variant will start dominating in the months it takes to roll out shots against this one By Charles Schmidt

Psychology How Targeted Advertising on Social Media Drives People to Extremes People seeking to radicalize others are using ads to push conspiracy theories and extremist views By Jeanna Matthews,The Conversation US

Ecology Plants are Stuck as Seed-Eating Animals Decline Their ability to track climate change is being squeezed on all sides By Andrea Thompson

Astronomy It's Time for a Global Ban on Destructive Antisatellite Testing The orbital debris created in the explosions is dangerous, long-lasting and a threat to the growing space economy By Brian Weeden,Victoria Samson

Renewable Energy Solar Power Could Boom in 2022, Depending on Supply Chains Shipping delays and rising a equipment costs could hamper installations By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Astronomy Astronomers Have Found Another Possible 'Exomoon' beyond Our Solar System Kepler-1708 b-i appears to be a giant moon orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet thousands of light-years from Earth By Jonathan O'Callaghan

Neurology Epstein-Barr Virus Found to Trigger Multiple Sclerosis The research could mark a turning point in the fight against MS By Lydia Denworth

Climate Change California Presents Plan to Prevent Extreme Heat Deaths The report follows a heat wave that killed hundreds across the western U.S. this summer By Anne C. Mulkern,E&E News

Animals New Bait Uses Mosquitoes' Love of Malaria Parasite to Bite Them Back Molecules produced by the parasite lure mosquitoes to a beet-based bait By Annie Melchor

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Booster Shots against Scary COVID Virus Variants Are in the Works Vaccine makers are designing follow-up shots based on new mutations to keep the disease at bay By Charles Schmidt | February 2021

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The companies are going to have to develop at least some intermediate variant-specific vaccine that they can roll out, whether it's for Omicron or whatever comes after Omicron finishes sweeping through the population." Ralph Baric, virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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