In May 2020, Kate Bingham, the life sciences venture capitalist was asked to lead the UK government’s vaccine task force (VTF), although she believed a successful Covid-19 vaccine was the “longest of the long shots”, and was reluctant to take responsibility of potentially wasting large sums of public money by pursuing jabs that…
New York Times, Investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, lift the lid of the “culture of secrecy” and shatter the luminous image of McKinsey & Co. the consulting giant, by unearthing conflicts of interest, corruption, hypocrisy, and strategic blunders that read like a prosecutor’s indictment. Vault.com, an employment site asserts that McKinsey with annual…
A major incident was declared over London fires as the temperatures exceeded 40°C, and more than 400 firefighters have been battling at least nine blazes that began on Tuesday afternoon. Homes is Wennington, east London, were evacuated after a grass fire spread to properties and left eight houses and a local church gutted by flames.…
The Scandal of Grenfell – witness it all in a play near the scene of the fire:- “Dictating to The Estate”. Regarding safety in housing in London – a production focussing on Grenfell by Nathaniel McBride every day until and including Sunday 12 June 2022 (no production on 7 June). Maxilla Social Club W10 6SW…
In Kerala ( India) the £63m K-Rail project, a high-speed rail linking the state end to end. A four feet tall marijuana ( Cannabis) plant was found growing on government land near Palarivatton next to a pillar supporting the elevated rail of Kochi Metro, which was duly chopped down. Cannabis has been used in the…
The next generation of genetic modification (GM) technology, lab-tweaked gene into an organism, gene drive technology goes even further by automatically replicating itself, and removing a specific natural gene. If an animal (parent A) that contains a gene drive mates with one that doesn’t (parent B), then in the forming embryo that starts to combine…
More than 2, 500 people suffering from obesity in nine countries, who weighed 105 kilograms on average at baseline, have lost 24 kilograms on average when they are treated with the highest dose of a new hunger-blocking drug in a large clinical trial according to results announced on 28 April by US Pharmaceutical giant Lilly…
Professor Devi Sridhar’s vital roles in communicating science to the public and speaking truth to power. In Preventable, she highlights lessons learned from outbreaks past and present in a narrative that traces the Covid-19 pandemic including her personal experience as a scientist, and set out a vision for how we can better protect ourselves from…
Hotel, Restaurant, and Catering ( HRC) have stood at the epitome of hospitality, innovation, welcoming thousands for more than 86 years.
University of Manchester biochemistry Professor Andrew Doig provides an eye-opening portrait of death throughout history, looking at infectious diseases, genetic disease, violence, and diet, who they affected, and the people who made it possible to overthrow them. We also hear about the long and torturous story of the discovery of vitamin C and its role…