Cells from critically endangered animals to be stored in Europe s first biobank
Nature s SAFE has been established in response to biodiversity loss which is threatening thousands of species with extinction
17 January 2021 • 6:00am
DNA from the Amur Leopard is just one of the species Nature s Safe hopes to bank
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Cells belonging to critically endangered species are to be indefinitely stored in Europe’s first ever “biobank” in an effort to save the animals from future extinction, The Telegraph can reveal.
The bank, known as Nature’s SAFE , will store the cells from animals including the Amur Leopard, Black Rhino and Mountain Chicken Frog, in cryogenic tanks in the UK.
Unfortunately it was not. Sars is only infectious when its, very obvious, symptoms appear. Covid-19 is infectious before symptoms emerge.
When compared with Sars, it does not usually require hospital treatment or result in death. About three per cent of Sars patients died, while Covid-19 is fatal in less than one per cent of cases.
The scale of infection without symptoms or with only mild symptoms – the World Health Organisation estimates that this is at least
80 per cent of cases – meant Covid-19 was well-established and circulating before anyone could get a grip on it.
As we have discovered, pandemics challenge a whole society, not just its health services or its scientists. One of the things we have struggled with most is understanding that the response needs to be similarly broad.
The MBIE Migration Data Explorer has the information (https://mbienz.shinyapps.io/migration data explorer/ ) back to 2010, albeit needs a bit of knowledge to use it. Specifically, arrival and departure data from Customs states Resident Visa for all residence class visas other than Australians (who are captured and listed separately), but for INZ application data, Permanent Resident Visa (PRV) applications are reported separately from other residence class visas as Returning Residence Visa in the application categories (this relates to the visa framework in the Immigration Act). This category also includes Variation of Travel Conditions applications, so requires some drilling to get PRV numbers.
Space exploration achieved several notable firsts in 2020 despite the Covid-19 pandemic, including commercial human spaceflight and returning samples of an asteroid to Earth.
This year is shaping up to be just as interesting. Here are some of the missions to keep an eye out for.
Artemis 1
Artemis 1 is to be the first flight of the NASA-led, international Artemis program, whose goal was (originally) to return astronauts to the moon by 2024. Artemis-1, which is still scheduled for launch late this year, will consist of an uncrewed Orion spacecraft which will be sent on a three-week flight around the moon. It will reach a maximum distance from Earth of 280,000 miles (450,000 km), the farthest into space that any spacecraft that can transport humans will have ever flown.
England refuses to listen to Boris Johnson’s Stay at Home orders
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The data shows Britons are far more active during the current third national lockdown than when the first emergency “stay at home” order was given last spring. There’s more traffic on the roads, more people on trains and more shoppers making trips out.
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People across England are about to be hit with a deluge of new government adverts on television, radio and social media containing one blunt demand: Stay at home.
It’s a familiar message and that may be why the public seems to be shrugging it off.