Last month, the US government launched ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to fast-track the production of a coronavirus vaccine in America. Details have thus far been very vague, but a governmental official involved in the project has broken down some of the steps to Science Magazine. The Trump administration is planning to provide unlimited funding and other … Read more
The woman having an affair with Professor Neil Ferguson said the lockdown was putting a ‘strain’ on her marriage as Health Secretary Matt Hancock today admitted the shamed scientist’s potentially illegal trysts had left him ‘speechless’. Professor Ferguson, 51, asked his mistress Antonia Staats, 38, to travel across London from her £1.9million home at least twice … Read more
Britain should have done mass coronavirus testing on the public at the beginning of the crisis and carried it on, the Government’s chief scientist has said. Sir Patrick Vallance, the chief scientific adviser to Downing Street, admitted yesterday that it ‘would have been beneficial’ to get a handle on testing faster. Today a senior minister … Read more
A government scientist was ousted after the Trump administration ignored his dire warnings about COVID-19 and a malaria drug President Donald Trump was pushing for the coronavirus despite scant evidence it helped, according to a whistleblower complaint Tuesday. Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, filed the complaint Tuesday with … Read more
Imperial scientist Neil Ferguson whose advice led to lockdown being introduced QUITS government role after ‘breaking the restrictions to meet his married lover’ By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 19:35 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 19:48 BST, 5 May 2020 The scientist whose advice led to Boris Johnson introducing lockdown measures to combat coronavirus has resigned from … Read more
Face masks will have some benefit in halting the spread of the coronavirus in post-lockdown Britain, Number 10‘s chief scientific adviser today said. Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs that masks could have a ‘marginal but positive’ impact on curbing transmission of the life-threatening infection. But ‘coverings of some sort might do’, he said in front of … Read more
Frances Arnold of the US was awarded for using the principles of evolution to develop new enzymes, which are the basic chemical tools of life. At first she tried to force such changes using more traditional methods, but her breakthrough came when she allowed evolutionary forces such as selection and even chance to govern the … Read more
A professor at Imperial College London claims there may never be a coronavirus vaccine and governments will have to respond to future outbreaks with lockdowns. Dr David Nabarro, a special envoy to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Covid-19, said no ‘absolute assumption’ can be made ‘that a vaccine will appear at all’. The global health professor … Read more
The latest ‘superfood’ to throw into your smoothie or porridge is chokeberries, scientists say. The fruit, native to North America, is high in health-boosting antioxidants which can help in the fight against disease. It’s too tart to be eaten in it’s raw state, but Polish scientists found the fruit’s nutrients aren’t damaged when cooked into … Read more
The Government ‘following the science’ mantra could pin the blame for coronavirus deaths on scientists ‘if anything goes wrong’, according to a top microbiologist. Politicians have repeated the mantra ‘we are following the science’ when questioned on their handling of the coronavirus pandemic. And Professor Hugh Pennington, a leading microbiologist at Aberdeen University, says ministers are … Read more