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Speculation about a possible radiation leak at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong has dominated the Chinese media news cycle in the last few days. Taishan has refuted the allegations, saying that the environmental indicators at the plant and its surrounding areas are “normal”. This statement has provided some measure of calm, especially among residents of nearby Hong Kong and Macau. On 13 June, quoting US officials and documents […]

“All the predictions and scientific rationality indicate that unfortunately we will have to suffer new epidemics as a logical result of the increase in world population, animal production and the movement of people,” explained Dr. Gerardo Guillén, director of Biomedical Research at CIGB. Scientists from Cuba and China want to anticipate future pandemics by investigating a potential generic vaccine that protects against different types of coronavirus and possible emerging variants. The Pan-Corona project is […]

In a 2020 scientific paper in Science, archaeologist Dongju Zhang’s research team, of Lanzhou University, reported the first discovery of Denisovan ancient DNA found outside the Denisova Cave.** Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was gleaned not from fossils, but from the cave sediments themselves. Precise dates show the Denisovans took shelter in the cave 100,000 years and 60,000 years ago, and possibly as recently as 45,000 years ago, when modern humans were […]

Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research as saying on Tuesday. While COVID-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, a […]

Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to a study by Sino-American scientists. published last year. The study, published last year, found that even patients with mild-to-no symptoms could spread the virus. In the light of the latest American “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy disinformation, it is worth re-reading. “The researchers used multiple sources to infer […]