First four-legged vertebrates to leave the oceans may have evolved ribs to help them walk on land – which later enabled them to start drawing air into their lungs around 360 million years ago, study shows Researchers had different lizard species walk on a treadmill during a CT scan They looked at savannah monitor lizards … Read more
HALF of coronavirus antibody finger-prick tests are unreliable, new study finds – including one that said a drop of saline was positive for the virus ABC News and the Mayo Clinic looked at nine coronavirus antibody tests that use a drop of blood from a finger prick Four of the nine failed to meet the … Read more
Coronavirus lockdowns have failed to alter the course of the pandemic but have instead ‘destroyed millions of livelihoods’, a JP Morgan study has claimed. Falling infection rates since lockdowns were lifted suggest that the virus ‘likely has its own dynamics’ which are ‘unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures’, a report published by the financial services … Read more
Children have half the chance of catching coronavirus as adults, leading British scientists have found. University College London researchers analysed 6,000 studies looking into the link between the viral disease and children. They found the risk of catching COVID-19 in children and teenagers was 56 per cent lower compared to adults over 20. The scientists … Read more
Ignore foodie snobs: Keeping tomatoes in the fridge or at room temperature makes no difference to their flavour, study shows Researchers put chilled and room temperature tomatoes to food assessors They found no ‘significant differences’ in sweetness, acidity and juiciness Team from University of Gottingen, Holland, said they can be stored in the fridge By … Read more
Coronavirus did NOT arrive in the US before 2020, suggests Stanford study of 1,700 nose and throat swabs that were collected last year Researchers looked at 1,700 nasopharyngeal swab samples collected between October 31, 2019 and December 31, 2019 at Stanford Health Care All of them were negative for routine respiratory virus testing and none … Read more
Multiple miscarriages can increase a woman’s risk of developing diabetes by up to 71%, new study suggests Women who miscarry are ’18 per cent more likely to develop type 2 diabetes’ Experts studied more than 24,700 diabetic women born between 1957 and 1997 Research suggests three miscarriages increased the chances by 71 per cent By Daily … Read more
Less than half of 19 to 30-year-olds are ‘strictly’ abiding by Britain’s lockdown rules, according to a major study. Among all adults, complete compliance has fallen from 70 per cent to under 60 per cent in the last fortnight. The study of 90,000 Britons found people are still sticking to the bulk of the rules, … Read more
Monkeys given six prototype coronavirus vaccines were protected from infection in Harvard study that offers hope a jab to protect humans could be on the horizon In one study, nine monkeys that were infected with coronavirus did not contract the disease after they recovered In another study, 25 monkeys were given six prototype vaccines while … Read more
More proof face masks work to curb the spread of the coronavirus has emerged after a study found it reduced infection by up to 75 per cent. Researchers in Hong Kong studied transmission of the virus between hamsters, with half infected with COVID-19 and the other being healthy. They analysed various scenarios in which the … Read more