Long Covid could become a bigger public health issue than excess deaths, academic warns, as figures show 10 per cent of coronavirus patients suffer symptoms for more than a month after infection Survey by King’s College shows 10 per cent had Covid symptoms 30 days later Report from college shows women in 40s were most … Read more
US academic is suspended for using the Chinese word for ‘um’ because it sounded like a racial slur Greg Patton lectured on use of ‘filler words’ at University of Southern California He mentioned the Chinese expression ‘neige’ (pronounced ‘nee-gah’) He was placed on administrative leave while the university ‘review the situation’ By Caroline Graham In … Read more
Cell engineering company Horizon Discovery Group hit by lockdown decline in academic research work The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, but makes its products in Colorado CRISPR is a gene-editing technology that could potentially cure genetic defects Horizon’s earnings fell by over 40% in April compared to the same month in 2019 By Harry Wise … Read more
Professor Sarah Gilbert said it would not be safe for them to do a so-called ‘challenge trial’ of Oxford University’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate An Oxford academic today dismissed the idea of deliberately infecting volunteers with Covid-19 to test the university’s experimental vaccine because no treatment currently exists to keep patients safe. Hopes of ending the Covid-19 … Read more
Fury as academic defends pulling down statues on Radio 4 and tells the station that actions by Black Lives Matter protesters could be seen as an ‘energising source of hope’ An academic defended toppling statues on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day Professor Tina Beattie’s comments provoked anger among some listeners Beattie claimed the … Read more
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open at the start of September ‘come what may’ Private schools plan to defy official advice and open at the new academic year Some fee-paying schools are organising their own track and trace systems One governor at a leading private school said headteachers are ‘furious’ with the … Read more
Private schools plan to ignore Government advice and open at the start of September ‘come what may’ Private schools plan to defy official advice and open at the new academic year Some fee-paying schools are organising their own track and trace systems One governor at a leading private school said headteachers are ‘furious’ with the … Read more
How rival science teams at Imperial College and Oxford University giving conflicting advice on coronavirus were born out of a sex smear that splintered the academic world Researchers at Imperial warned the disease could claim up to 250,000 lives Oxford study warned the virus may have already infected half of UK population But rivalry between … Read more
How rival science teams at Imperial College and Oxford University giving conflicting advice on coronavirus were born out of a sex smear that splintered the academic world Researchers at Imperial warned the disease could claim up to 250,000 lives Oxford study warned the virus may have already infected half of UK population But rivalry between … Read more
The UK should be braced for food rationing because relying on the public to exercise shopping restraint simply ‘won’t work’, according to an academic expert. Bryce Evans, associate professor of history and politics at Liverpool Hope University, said we’re not at crisis point yet, and urged people not to panic buy. But he’s also calling … Read more