Mr Biden says the US intelligence community has "coalesced around two likely scenarios" about the origin of the virus, "but has not reached a definitive conclusion".
Allegations that COVID escaped from a Chinese lab make it harder for nations to collaborate on ending the pandemic — and fuel online bullying, some scientists say
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday ordered US intelligence agencies to report to him in the next three months on whether COVID-19 first emerged in China from an animal source or from a laboratory accident, while Beijing yesterday responded by criticizing the US intelligence community.
Agencies should “redouble their efforts to collect and analyze information that could bring us closer to a definitive conclusion, and to report back to me in 90 days,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
Biden said that agencies are split over two possible sources for the virus that swept the planet over the
The work could open new, more effective treatments for patients suffering from persistent skin itching.
Chronic skin itching drives more people to the dermatologist than any other condition. In fact, the latest science literature finds that 7% of US adults, and between 10 and 20% of people in developed countries, suffer from dermatitis, a common skin inflammatory condition that causes itching.
“Itch is a significant clinical problem, often caused by underlying medical conditions in the skin, liver, or kidney. Due to our limited understanding of itch mechanisms, we don’t have effective treatment for the majority of patients,” says Liang Han, an assistant professor in Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Biological Sciences who is also a researcher in the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience.