Messenger RNA is the single-stranded intermediate molecule that transfers the genetic information from DNA in the nucleus to the cytoplasm where it serves as a template in the formation of polypeptides. Included in this link is free and paid access to several scientific texts providing different perspectives of the structure, role and function of mRNA. …read […]
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Physics of Fluids 32, 063303 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0015044 ABSTRACTFace mask filters—textile, surgical, or respiratory—are widely used in an effort to limit the spread of airborne viral infections. Our understanding of the droplet dynamics around a face mask filter, including the droplet containment and leakage from and passing through the cover, is incomplete. We present a fluid dynamics study
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December 1,2020: This post was based on the best available evidence at the beginning of the pandemic (March-April 2020). The information contained is still very relevant, but there is also now an updated/companion review specifically looking at the transmission of COVID-19 (and concluding aerosols play a very important role in it’s transmission), that can be found here.
Aerosols, Droplets, and Airborne Spread: Everything you could possibly want to know Read More »
Gerhard Scheuch Published Online: 28 Jul 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1089/jamp.2020.1616 Background: The transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza and corona viruses from one person to another is still not fully understood. Methods: A literature search showed that there is a strong scientific rationale and evidence that viruses are very efficiently spread through aerosols by the patient’s breathing
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Gerhard Scheuch Published Online:28 Jul 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1089/jamp.2020.1616 Background: The transmission of respiratory viruses such as influenza and corona viruses from one person to another is still not fully understood. Methods: A literature search showed that there is a strong scientific rationale and evidence that viruses are very efficiently spread through aerosols by the patient’s breathing only.
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Noticing that an elderly woman on her delivery route hadn’t collected her mail for three days, a USPS worker grew increasingly concerned. However, the phone call she made next has been credited with saving the senior citizen’s life. Shonda Lemon, 34, has worked as a USPS mail carrier in Chicago, Illinois, for eight years. She
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BAGHDAD—A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeted facilities belonging to a powerful Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, killing one of their militiamen and wounding a number of others, an Iraqi militia official said Friday. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded
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After braving two years of relentless torture in a communist forced-labor camp in China, a woman was safely rescued to Australia by her fiancé nearly 20 years ago. The couple, now in their 50s, recounted to The Epoch Times their soul-stirring journey through the darkest days of life, exposing the injustices happening behind the closed
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An Ohio officer has died in the line of duty while trying to rescue two teenagers who fell into a frozen lake earlier this week, authorities confirmed. The drowning incident happened on Tuesday around 6:00 p.m. at Rocky Fork State Park in Hillsboro—a city in Highland County, WCPO reported. One of the teenagers, identified as
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LONDON—The parent company of British Airways and Iberia on Friday said it lost €6.9 billion ($8.3 billion) last year as the pandemic caused a near-total collapse in international air traffic, and called for digital passes to help revive travel. IAG’s after-tax loss compared with a profit of €1.7 billion the year before. Its revenue slumped
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