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A fifth of the world’s population has a ‘superior resilience’ to colder temperatures thanks to a genetic mutation, allowing them to never feel the cold, study reveals. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden had 32 healthy men aged 18 to 40 sit in 14 degrees Celsius water until their body temperature dropped to 35.5C. They … Read more
A fifth of the world’s population has a ‘superior resilience’ to colder temperatures thanks to a genetic mutation, allowing them to never feel the cold, study reveals. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden had 32 healthy men aged 18 to 40 sit in 14 degrees Celsius water until their body temperature dropped to 35.5C. They … Read more
Catch of the millennia! Rare YELLOW lobster named Banana is a one-in-30 million find born with a genetic mutation that causes pigment reduction A Maine fisherman caught the yellow lobster and donated it to science Researchers have named it Banana and are now caring for the crustacean Banana was born with a condition called leucism that … Read more
By Eleanor Hayward Health Correspondent What is the South African variant? It was first found in Nelson Mandela Bay in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province in mid-October. Like the UK’s Kent variant, the mutant strain quickly became dominant and drove a ferocious second wave. There are two key mutations that give it an advantage – these are … Read more
Sir Patrick Vallance today insisted that the current crop of Covid-19 vaccines should work against the coronavirus variant that emerged in Kent and has now become the dominant strain in England. Offering hope that Britain’s inoculation drive won’t be in vain, No10’s chief scientific adviser claimed evidence suggests the highly-infectious variant will be susceptible to … Read more
Pfizer and BioNTech say their Covid vaccine will work against the coronavirus variant that emerged in Kent and has now become the dominant strain in England. Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK’s chief scientific adviser, said he expected all the current vaccines to work against it but said there were still ‘question marks’ over the variants … Read more
Matt Hancock today revealed he is ‘incredibly worried’ about the highly-infectious South African coronavirus mutation which top experts fear could scupper Britain’s vaccine roll-out. The Health Secretary warned the variant — which has already been spotted in the UK — posed a ‘very, very significant problem’. His comments came after one of the Government’s coronavirus … Read more
Coronavirus vaccines could be ineffective against the highly-infectious South African mutation, a scientist who helped develop the Oxford jab has warned. Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford, said the African strain is more concerning than the Kent one. Vaccines are believed to be effective against the highly-infectious UK variant VUI-202012/01 currently causing … Read more
Questions are being raised about why Government scientists didn’t sound the alarm over the new mutated strain of coronavirus until last week despite discovering it two months ago – amid claims data may have been held back to force Number 10 into a rash lockdown. Top experts have also slammed the claim peddled by Boris … Read more
Denmark will cull its mink population of up to 17 million in an effort to minimise the risk of them re-transmitting a new version of coronavirus to humans. The nation’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Wednesday that the mutated virus in farmed minks could have ‘devastating consequences worldwide’ and action was ‘necessary’. A report from a government … Read more