MARCH Kate revealed she and Prince Charles had got ‘relatively close’ at the Prince’s Trust Awards on March 11 – Charles was diagnosed with coronavirus in mid-March. She said: ‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said [to Derek] ‘god you look ill.’ ‘He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, … Read more
A breakthrough drug for oesophageal cancer can give more than two years of life to some patients who would otherwise have just months to live, a landmark trial has found. Experts have hailed the treatment the biggest advance in decades for this cancer type, which affects the tube that connects the throat and the stomach. … Read more
A breakthrough in stem cell research allowed scientists to create ‘surrogate sires’ that produce sperm with the genetic traits of a donor animal. So far the new technique has been used to create pigs, goats and cattle with the sole purpose of producing sperm with the DNA of another male. Researchers from Washington State University … Read more
Scientists in the UK have demonstrated a prototype quantum network for secure online communications that can’t be penetrated by cyber attacks. The University of Bristol’s ‘multiplexing’ system splits light particles that carry information to multiple internet users from a single central source. Researchers have demonstrated the technology – which employs the odd effects of quantum entanglement … Read more
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that President Trump will hold a press conference Sunday night to announce a ‘major therapeutic breakthrough’ for coronavirus. McEnany tweeted late Saturday night that US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Food and Drug Administration head Stephen Hahn would be attending the 6pm Sunday press conference … Read more
Malaria breakthrough could help speed up discovery of Covid-19 treatments, scientists claim Drugs primarily target the disease-causing pathogen itself in treatment But researchers found key enzymes in human red blood cells which are involved It is hoped that targeting these proteins could help treat malaria Researchers also believe the same pathway could be used to speed up … Read more
Three university professors have become overnight millionaires after a ‘major breakthrough’ in their coronavirus drug. Ratko Djukanovic, Stephen Holgate and Donna Davies created their Southampton-based company Synairgen almost two decades ago. Shares in the company, which was involved in a successful trial of a drug to treat COVID-19 this week, sky-rocketed by 3,000 per cent … Read more
Scientists believe they have found an inhaler (pictured) that blocks coronavirus from progressing in the lungs An inhaled drug that clears coronavirus in the lungs can prevent three in four patients from falling seriously ill with the disease, according to scientists trialling the experimental treatment. Initial results from the trial of more than 100 hospitalised Covid-19 … Read more
Matt Hancock today called the dexamethasone breakthrough ‘one of the best pieces of news we’ve had’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, after the £5 steroid was proven to be the first drug to save lives. The Health Secretary described the results of the landmark Oxford University trial as ‘brilliant news for everybody’. The drug is already … Read more
Global Stocks rally as UK scientists hail ‘major breakthrough’ in the battle against Covid-19 By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail Published: 23:22 BST, 16 June 2020 | Updated: 23:22 BST, 16 June 2020 Shares around the world stormed higher as investors cheered signs of life in the US economy and a ‘major breakthrough’ in … Read more