image: Illustration of the structure of zinc oxide modified with the spike protein and its interaction with antibodies in the sample. The novel method detects COVID-19 antibodies in five minutes view: more: Credit: Karin Regina Leite de Oliveira/DK design Rapid, cheap and accurate tests continue to be essential for epidemiological surveillance and for health services …
Versius surgical robotics systems [Image courtesy of CMR Surgical] CMR Surgical announced today that Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Ethicon business will work with CMR to sell its Versius surgical robotics systems in select markets. The collaboration involves commercial teams from the two companies working together. They’ll focus on selling to select hospitals in Italy, France, …
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American socialite and reality TV star Kim Kardashian was slammed online after the amount that she would be getting in the child support settlement from her ex-husband Kanye West went viral. According to court documents obtained by The Guardian on November 29, the 42-year-old star and Ye have reached an agreement on their divorce. Kim …
The past year saw crypto art breaking through to the mainstream, and many lawsuits involving non-fungible tokens making headlines. How are the region’s regulators responding? New applications of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology called non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a hot topic in Taiwan. But currently, there are no regulations specifically addressing their rise and development, and …
Visitors crowd the cloud computing services presentation at a technology trade fair. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Sophos on Tuesday reported that among Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) users at small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), 56% experienced an increase in the volume of attacks on their organization when compared with last year — and 67 % were hit …
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Some of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees will face criticism from Republicans at today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for their track record of letting criminals out on bail and their legal theories on the Second Amendment. Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., will preside over the hearing for six of Biden’s judicial nominees, just a handful …
So Biden is pinning his hopes on the Democratic-led Congress resolving the impasse, something that appears likely to happen in the coming week despite grumbling by some lawmakers in both parties. It’s unclear whether they’ll do it before shipments of some critical supplies, such as chlorine for drinking water, begin to shut down this weekend. …
FIRST ON FOX – For nearly 26 years, John Ramsey has been trying to figure out who killed his 6-year-old daughter, JonBenet Ramsey, in their Boulder, Colorado, home a day after Christmas in 1996. Most recently, the 78-year-old father of five has been pushing the Boulder Police Department (BPD) to turn over evidence from the …
An experimental Alzheimer’s drug modestly slowed the brain disease’s inevitable worsening, researchers reported Tuesday — but it remains unclear how much difference that might make in people’s lives. Japanese drugmaker Eisai and its US partner Biogen had announced earlier this fall that the drug lecanemab appeared to work, a badly needed bright spot after repeated …
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As astronauts go farther and farther into space, a comprehensive understanding of how the changes in gravity impact them is crucial. How does being in space change people? And how does being in space affect their medicines? These are some of the questions that Prof. Sara Eyal of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wants to …
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