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Theralase Technologies Inc.: Theralase Commences Collaborative Research with National Microbiology Laboratory for Development of Coronavirus Vaccine ® Technologies Inc. (" TSXV:TLT)( OTCQB:TLTFF), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of light activated Photo Dynamic Compounds (" PDC") and their associated drug formulations to safely and effectively destroy various cancers, bacteria and viruses, announced today that it has executed a Collaborative Rese...

Comments LONDON — According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, an economy is “the system of trade and industry by which the wealth of a country is made and used.” For the last few centuries, this system has been dominated by the paradigm of capitalism, in which the private owners of capital, and not the state, control the trade of goods and services. The slave trade and plantation economy of the early colonial period in America were among the original man...

Atlanta Magazine 60 years of covering Atlanta: The 1990s 197 February 1995 This Gen X–heavy “Jobs” issue describes an early iteration of the gig economy. For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found: The ’90s in 5 Scenes A dig through our archives unearthe...

Division Director Dr. Stephanie R. Bialek, MD, MPH, is the director of the Division of Viral Diseases in CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), since 2020. Dr. Bialek, a captain in the United States Public Health Service, leads a division with 4 branches, 27 programs, and over 300 staff, fellows, and contractors. During her career, Dr. Bialek has worked on a wide range of domestic and international public health programs. She joined CDC as an Epidemic Intell...

DNA Science (The Wistar Institute) Hindsight is 2020, perhaps literally, when it comes to COVID-19. A compelling narrative predicting that a deadly virus – specifically, a coronavirus – would jump species, seeding the pandemic, runs through reports and opinions published in the major medical and scientific journals. We knew. Exactly 17 years ago, Toronto physician Paul Caulford wrote in the last issue of The Lancet for 2003, in “SARS: aftermath of an outbreak,” that “SARS brought on...