mRNA vaccines

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Who funds quantum research?

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Analysis Science artificial intelligence Bruce Schneier Drew Weissman drug development Katalin Karikó Majorana 1 Microsoft Research mRNA vaccines Nathan Sanders Normal Eisen Physical Review B Physics World public AI public quantum quantum computing quantum technologies topological qubit Winfried Hensinger

An odd little detail in a Physics World piece on Microsoft’s claim to have made a working topological qubit: Regardless of the debate about the results and how they have been announced, researchers a…

COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem

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Scicomm adverse events following immunization AstraZeneca COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 vaccines Covishield European Medicines Agency mRNA vaccines Omelas public health risk communication signal-to-noise ratio T Jacob John Ursula Le Guin

At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the body – which serves as the European Union’s drug and vaccine regulator – had conclud…