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Drugs, less effective vaccines against new viral changes; antibody cocktail can protect patient connections
The following is a summary of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find cures and vaccines for COVID-19, the disease that caused the virus.
Coronavirus strains escape the effects of antibody drugs Scientists make embryos in race to save northern white rhinoceros
Scientists working to save the northern white rhino have discovered the extinction of two other emblems of the world’s most endangered mammal, increasing the number of number of viable embryos to date to five. Males are unknown to live and neither of the two northern white rhinos on Earth – a mother and her daughter living in Kenya – can carry a calf to term.
Lobster shell patterns make concrete stronger: Australian researcher
Inspired by natural, intricate lobster shell patterns, Australian researchers say they have found a way, using 3D printing technology, to improve the strength of concrete for use in complex architecture. . Reinforced with steel fiber, the concrete becomes more durable when set in a pattern that replicates a lobster shell, according to a new study from RMIT University Melbourne.
Babies were born from a famous carnivorous dinosaur group ‘ready’ for hunting
Scientists have for the first time found original remains from the group of wild meat-eating dinosaurs that include T. rex – fossil jaw and claw bones that show these babies were of record size looked very much like adults and were “born ready” to hunt. The fossils, the researchers said Tuesday, represented two species from the group known as tyrannosaurs, the APEX predators in Asia and North America during the Cretaceous period near the end of the dinosaur age.
Scientists in Greece have discovered a 20-million-year-old spruce tree
Greek scientists on the volcanic island of Lesbos say they have discovered a rare fossil tree whose branches and roots are still intact after 20 million years. The tree was found during roadworks near an ancient forest that was separated millions of years ago on an eastern Mediterranean island and transported from the site by a special splint and metal platform.
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