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I will be eternally grateful to all the scientists who made the mRNA vaccines that have saved millions of lives during he COVID pandemic. Today two of them received the Nobel Prize for medicine: Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic — technology that’s also being studied to fight cancer and other diseases. Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman were cited for contributing “to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health,” according to the panel that awarded the prize in Stockholm. The panel said the pair’s “groundbreaking findings … fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.” Traditionally, making vaccines required growing viruses or pieces of viruses and then purifying them before next steps. The messenger RNA approach starts with a snippet of genetic code carrying instructions for making proteins.
The world’s largest and smelliest flower teeters on extinction.
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The Political Economy Society at the University of Sydney are putting out a call for interest on their upcoming student led ‘UPSWELL’ journal. If you have experience or want to be involved, join us on Wednesday 4th Oct 6PM to hear our ideas, contribute yours, and create a vision for this project.
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It’s just as bad as you thought The Guardian reports on the latest “intellectual” vomit spewing forth from the centers of right wing academia: June, rightwing academic Kevin Slack published a book-length polemic claiming that ideas that had emerged from what he called the radical left were now so dominant that the US republic its founders envisioned was effectively at an end. Slack, a politics professor at the conservative Hillsdale College in Michigan, made conspiratorial and extreme arguments now common on the antidemocratic right, that “transgenderism, anti-white racism, censorship, cronyism … are now the policies of an entire cosmopolitan class that includes much of the entrenched bureaucracy, the military, the media, and government-sponsored corporations”. In a discussion of possible responses to this conspiracy theory, he wrote that the “New Right now often discusses a Red Caesar, by which it means a leader whose post-Constitutional rule will restore the strength of his people”.
The longtime No Labels ally has denounced the group’s plans to field a 2024 presidential candidate — but he’s still appearing at their events.
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When sleep doesn’t come on time.
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Democrats are being pouty because they don’t have a young, dazzling superstar like Barack Obama to fall in love with. But they will vote and they will vote for Biden because they hate Trump. Negative partisanship is as powerful a motivator as 2008 style adoration.
Unemployed Celebrity Chef and aspiring immunologist Pete Evans is said to be conflicted over the concept of the Channel 10 show The Masked Singer, telling friends that he was unsure whether he would accept an offer to appear on the... Read More ›
A conspiratorial group of extreme Brexit lobbyists mounted an extraordinary campaign against one of the world’s most prestigious science journals – part of a series of joint investigations between Byline Times and Computer Weekly
VOTERS unsure about the upcoming referendum about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament have had, and will have, many opportunities to enrich their understanding. On Thursday September 21 and Friday September 22, well-known journalist and author Kerry O’Brien, and Gooreng Gooreng woman and business leader Jade Ritchie, spent time on the Coffs Coast meeting with First...
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One of the outcomes of the W3C worldwide technical conference, TPAC, this year, was a suggestion from W3C staff that we consider forming a new Social Web Working Group (WG) for revising the ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0 standards. There has been some controversy about this idea, which I wanted to address with a blog … Continue reading A New Social Web Working Group at the W3C
STANDING in a bowl under a one-minute shower is now a reality for many residents of the Coffs Coast hinterland as their water tanks run dry after no good rain for the past six months and El Niño declared. The bowl water is then used to flush the loo, feed the veggie patch or mop,...
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OCTOBER is Small Business Month and ‘6 degrees’, the City of Coffs Harbour’s Economic Development and Tourism Team, has been busy gearing up for it. The team’s first event is an Open House at Business @ Yarrila. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us –...
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APPRECIATION was expressed to the numerous sponsors and supporters of C.ex Group Coffs Harbour Running Festival at a thank-you event hosted by Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour on Wednesday 20 September. The annual running festival, now in its eleventh year, was held on Sunday 10 September 2023 with a bumper turnout of over 1,200 people...
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SURF Life Saving (SLS) patrol season was officially welcomed at Woolgoolga over the weekend with the time-honoured tradition of Raising of the Flags. On Saturday morning, 23 September, members of the Woolgoolga Surf Life Saving Club and supporters gathered on the sand. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....
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THE PROBUS Club of Coffs City is celebrating Probus Month by reaching out to the community and sharing awareness of what the club members’ goals and projects are. “On the first of October, we begin our Probus Month celebrations in line with the International Day of Older Persons,” David Hough, Probus Club of Coffs City,...
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THE PINK Silks Trust has donated a portable life-support unit to Coffs Harbour Health Campus (CHHC) thanks to the generosity of the Coffs Coast community in supporting the charity’s events. The ventilator, which cost $67,171, will help doctors and nurses care for critically ill patients, who have transferred to CHHC Theatres/Intensive Care department from smaller...
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