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Moderna Plans to Offer All Trial Participants Vaccine
Moderna Inc. is planning to offer its vaccine to all trial participants who received the placebo.Ted S. Warren/Associated Press
Moderna Inc. is planning to offer its vaccine to all trial participants who received the placebo, without having them wait until they might be eligible outside of the study. The company is hoping that the move will keep individuals enrolled in the trial, so that it can continue to collect longer-term data.
Some health authorities, however, have pushed back against the proposal, saying that telling participants that they had received the placebo and then vaccinating them will make studying the vaccine’s efficacy and safety more challenging.
A top scientist questioned virus lockdowns on Fox News. The backlash was fierce.
Peter Jamison, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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The epidemiologist sitting before the cameras spoke with calm authority. It was late March, and as the coronavirus spread across the country, it came as no surprise that journalists were turning to John Ioannidis. The Stanford University medical professor was famous for his rigorous assessments - and frequent debunking - of disease treatments. He was a consummate physician-researcher, combining fluency in the mathematical models that predict a pathogen s lines of attack with experience at the bedsides of patients suffering from AIDS.
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A new molecular probe from Stanford University could help reveal how our brains think and remember. This tool, called Fast Light and Calcium-Regulated Expression or FLiCRE (pronounced flicker ), can be sent inside any cell to perform a variety of research tasks, including tagging, recording and controlling cellular functions. This work gets at a central goal of neuroscience: How do you find the system of neurons that underlie a thought or cognitive process? Neuroscientists have been wanting this type of tool for a long time, said Alice Ting, professor of genetics in the Stanford School of Medicine and of biology in the School of Humanities and sciences, whose team co-led this work with the lab of Stanford psychiatrist and bioengineer, Karl Deisseroth.