Among the army of biotechs that threw themselves into the gold rush for 2019-nCoV vaccines or therapies, Moderna emerged as one of the most legitimate contenders: The NIH had signed it on as a partner, demonstrating confidence in its messenger RNA platform to produce a vaccine rapidly.
That has given the Cambridge, MA-based biotech a nice bump on its unicorn valuation. And CEO Stéphane Bancel is seizing it.
Moderna, whose $604 million IPO set a record for the industry, is offering more stocks on the public market in hopes of raising another $500 million to fund clinical development and drug discovery, as well as expand its mRNA tech platform.
Researchers at @distributedbioare developing Centivax, a new kind of universal vaccine.
The vaccine has shown promise against 39 viral strains of influenza spanning the last century, including all the big pandemic strains to hit the world http://bit.ly/37ZqeKM
If you've fantasized about dropping a few thousand dollars on a bottle of rare Scotch, you might want to re-think that investment. Scientists have found that half of the bottles of aged single malts they tested were not as old as their labels suggested.
Rare bottles of vintage Scotch whisky are highly prized by collectors and connoisseurs, and command outrageous prices. As such, counterfeit single malts have become a problem. Enter an unusual solution: Fallout from nuclear bomb tests conducted during the 1950s and 1960s could help experts to detect fake antique whisky.
Nuclear bombs that were detonated decades ago spewed the radioactive isotope carbon-14 into the atmosphere; from there, the isotope was absorbed by plants and other living organisms, and began to decay after the organisms died. Traces of this excess carbon-14 can therefore be found in barley that was harvested and distilled to make whisky. (...)
A crater in western Australia was formed by a meteor strike more than 2.2 billion years ago and is the world's oldest known impact site, new research published Wednesday shows.
The study marks the first time that the Yarrabubba crater has been precisely dated, at 2.229 billion years old, and means it is 200 million years older than any similar site known on Earth.
The revelation also raises the intriguing possibility that the massive impact could have significantly altered the Earth's climate, helping end a period of global "deep freeze".
Scientists had long suspected that Yarrabubba, in a remote part of the outback, dated back several billion years.
Carry on...I'll show you how kooky I can get by proving the globe Earth claim is BOGUS!
It works like this:
The way to measure curvature of a globe with claimed circumference of 24.901 miles is with the equasion eight inches by the mile squared. Do you even know what that means?
So... at a distance of 50-60 miles, how much of the Chicago bulildings should be visible from across lake Michigan?
Uhm, what's an "equasion"? Kooky jargon?
Error corrected thank you. Is that all you have, an ad hominem attack?
Typical.
Kooky (and incoherent) refers to your arguments.
You don't have one!
Do you like little boxes or something?
You're not worth my time. Come back when you learn something about Earth..
