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AACC Statement on the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence

Statement attributable to the Board of Directors of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry: Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the limits of the laboratory medicine community s ingenuity and endurance. However, even as we have faced unprecedented challenges during this outbreak, our Asian and Asian American colleagues have been facing another outbreak: a surge of directed hostility and violence, fueled in part by xenophobic rhetoric around the coronavirus. It shouldn t have taken a shocking and deadly event to bring these circumstances to the level of attention and concern they have always deserved. We are appalled and angered by the horrific acts committed in and around Atlanta on March 16, which took the lives of eight people, including six Asian American women. We extend our deepest condolences to the families of all the shooting victims. We are equally devastated by the ongoing racist attacks targeting the Asian American community that preceded the

This Filipino-American priest is making COVID-19 vaccine from yeast

Dubai: A Filipino-American scientist hopes to beat the coronavirus with a vaccine developed using baker’s yeast. By using bio-engineered yeast, the common single-celled fungal cells, Rev. Nicanor Austriaco hopes to transform COVID into a common cold. “The goal from this scrappy vaccine is not to prevent you from getting COVID. It’s actually to prevent you from getting severe COVID that will require hospitalisations,” the churchman-scientist told Gulf News. Pre-clinical development Rev. Austriaco, 52, earned his doctorate degree in yeast molecular biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His COVID-19 shot is currently in pre-clinical development in the US. A license to conduct clinical trials will be sought in the Philippines, the home of his ancestors, after the “mouse work” (test on animals), he added. He currently consults with the Manila government on the coronavirus pandemic response.

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