Biomedicine & Biotech

This article was originally published at Geopolitical Futures. The original is here.

Today, Vladimir Putin announced that Russian regulators have approved the world's first coronavirus vaccine. He's so confident in it that he claims that one of his daughters has been vaccinated already.

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials noticed something strange: Countries that still used the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis had fewer infections and deaths from coronavirus.

While Americans were (sort of) celebrating the Fourth of July, the coronavirus kept raging on. Some relevant developments and analysis have occurred in the past few days that might shed a little more light on how the pandemic will unfold.

It sounds like the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has become completely dysfunctional. The Secretary, Dr.

For many years, the anti-GMO movement has advanced a compelling narrative about its struggle against the biotech industry—pejoratively referred to as 'Big Ag.' According to this story, organic food activists and environmental groups are independen

UV light is a powerful disinfectant because its high-energy photons are able to damage the genetic material inside of microbes. (The genetic material for most microbes is DNA.

As the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic continues to spread -- and, at this point, it doesn't look to be stopping anytime soon -- pharmaceutical companies and governments are working together to make vaccines against it.

For lack of a more sophisticated term, the reason we grow old and die is because our biological tissues “wear out.”

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