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COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem
At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the body – which serves as the European Union’s drug and vaccine regulator – had concluded that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was not … Continue reading
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Tagged adverse events following immunization, AstraZeneca, COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 vaccines, Covishield, European Medicines Agency, mRNA vaccines, Omelas, public health, risk communication, signal-to-noise ratio, T Jacob John, Ursula Le Guin
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Powerful microscopy technique brings proteins into focus
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technology has become more important because the field that it revolutionised – structural biology – has become more important. The international scientific community had this rise in fortunes, so to speak, acknowledged when the Nobel … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE2, covalent bonds, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM, direct electron detector, elastic scattering, Falcon 4, field emission gun, GABA, inelastic scattering, Joachim Frank, kinetic energy, mouse apoferritin, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, novel coronavirus, sampling frequency, signal-to-noise ratio, structural biology, Thermo Fisher Scientific, X-ray crystallography
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