As the numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths in India continue to mount, public health officials are carefully watching yet another looming threat: the appearance of mutations that could be making the virus circulating there more infectious or more capable of causing severe disease.
Scientists believe that the variants of SARS-CoV-2 responsible for this second wave of cases in India already include at least two mutations that make them more dangerous. These mutations are already familiar to COVID-19 experts. One is found in a variant first identified in South Africa, while the other is part of a variant believed to have emerged from California. Researchers believe that these two mutations may, respectively, make it easier for the virus to infect human cells, and to evade the protec…
Pfizer Inc. shares fell after it halted early development of an oral drug for weight loss on safety concerns, raising investor anxiety about an alternative therapy the company is still developing.
The drugmaker will stop work on lotiglipron based on data from phase 1 clinical trials and lab measurements showing elevated levels of enzymes called transaminases from an ongoing mid-stage study, according to a statement Monday. The enzymes play a key role in liver function. None of the patients reported liver side effects or symptoms, Pfizer said.
The shares fell as much as 5.6% at 10:51 a.m. in New York, their biggest intraday drop since February, 2022.
Struggling to recover from waning Covid vaccine demand, Pfizer is racing to catch up with Novo Nordisk A/S and Eli Lilly …
My closest brush with motherhood was an intense 24 hours fostering an orphaned baby owl monkey in the Peruvian Amazon in 2009. According to Charles Darwin, my maternal drive should have transformed me into an intuitively wise and selfless nurse. But the truth was I felt quite traumatized—fretful, exhausted, and for the sake of my defiled and defecated hair alone (the baby was happiest when clinging to my head), uninclined to repeat the ordeal ever again. I was 39 at the time and wrestling with whether I should be having children myself. My night with the owl monkey reinforced my suspicion that I was not cut out for motherhood.
Females have long been equated with motherhood, as if no other role existed. But my research about motherhood in the animal kingdom taught me that materna…
Imports in April also grew more robustly than expected, signalling China’s domestic demand is holding up well, good news for policymakers looking to soften the blow from any trade shocks.Some analysts, however, warned the strong April showing was mostly seasonal and that the global export recovery may have already topped out.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
“Shipments still look healthy but today’s data does point to a softening in external demand recently,” Capital Economics Senior China Economist Julian Evans-Pritchard wrote in a note.”The backdrop of the ongoing trade negotiations between China and the U.S. is one in which global growth has already peaked and China’s e…
The apparel industry has come under pressure to improve factory conditions and workers’ rights, particularly after the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Bangladesh more than three years ago, when 1,136 garment workers were killed.Following the tragedy, numerous initiatives were launched by global brands and charities to promote openness and safeguard employees, from ensuring the safety of buildings to providing better pay and working hours.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
But while most projects focused on farmers growing cotton in the fields or factory workers stitching clothes, few work with the spinning mills in the middle of the supply chain.Run by the California-based charity…
Friday’s data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed retail sales rose a meagre 0.2 percent in September, missing expectations for an already slow 0.3 percent rise in a Reuters poll.This follows a gain of 0.3 percent in August and a flat outcome in July.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
In chain volume terms, sales grew 0.2 percent for the whole third quarter compared with a robust 1.2 percent in the prior three-month period.The Australian dollar dipped about 20 pips to $0.7205 after the disappointing numbers capped a week of underwhelming economic data on building approvals, inflation and house prices.Friday’s data implies a risk private consumption didn’t add mu…
Between 2012 and 2017, the company imported “156 shipments of false eyelash kits from two suppliers located in the People’s Republic of China that contained materials sourced by these suppliers” from North Korea, the Treasury said in a statement.”E.l.f.’s compliance program and its supplier audits failed to discover that approximately 80 percent of the false eyelash kits supplied by two of E.l.f.’s China-based suppliers contained materials” from North Korea, it said.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
The company faced more than $40 million in penalties but the Treasury took into account mitigating circumstances including the small amount involved and the fact that E.l.f. rep…
Motier Ventures is presided by Guillaume Houzé, image and communication director of the Galeries Lafayette group, and aims to fund new companies “that are tapping technology to generate ultra-high growth.” Motier Ventures will act as business angel, providing initial funding of up to €300,000, and is prepared to invest up to €3 million as companies develop further.The family office was set up at the end of 2021 and was first promoted in early 2022. It said it will prioritise investment in e-marketplaces and start-ups operating in finance and insurance, as well as software developers and other web3 players like blockchain solution developersคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Motier …
Bezos, who is the world’s richest man, is among a growing list of billionaires to dedicate substantial funds towards combating the impact of global warming.”Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos said in an Instagram post. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share.”
The Bezos Earth Fund will begin issuing grants this summer as part of the initiative.”It’s going to take collective action from big companies, small companies, nation states, global organizations, and individuals,” Bezos said.Counteracting climate change has become a popular cause for U.S. billionaires in recent years, with Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and hedge f…
Man-made gems are reshaping the $89 billion global diamond jewellery market, especially in the west Indian city of Surat where 90 percent of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished.In Smit Patel’s gleaming lab, technicians drop crystal diamond “seed” slices into reactors mimicking the extreme pressure far underground.
“Once the customer sees it for herself, they are sold. I believe this is the future,” said Patel, director of Greenlab Diamonds and the third generation of his family to deal in diamonds.From seed to ring-ready jewels, his team takes less than eight weeks to produce a diamond virtually indistinguishable from a mined gem.”It’s the same product, it’s the same chemical, the same optical properties,” Patel said.
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Lab-grown diamond exports…