Daily Archives: February 26, 2020

Experimental coronavirus vaccine to be tested in April

An experimental coronavirus vaccine will be tested on humans in April 2020,    Axios  reported quoting The Wall Street Journal. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and drugmaker Moderna have developed mRNA-1273 vaccince. Moreover, the producers claim that the vaccine is ready for tests. The vaccine will be tested on 20–25 healthy volunteers in April,…

Scientists find cause of nervous system’s birth defects

Protein TRPM2 plays a key role in the thermal reaction, which affects the development of the fetal brain during pregnancy, said scientists from the Institute of Zoology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. High body temperature during pregnancy, as you know, can be linked to the occurrence of neural tube defects in the fetus, which…