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2021/01/11 10:39 Shi Zhengli inside WIV laboratory. (gettyimages) Shi Zhengli inside WIV laboratory. (gettyimages) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The revelation that a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been infecting "humanized mice" with new bat SARS coronaviruses in 2019 raises the question of whether an accident during these experiments led to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday (Jan. 8), a researcher who goes by the pseudonym Billy Bostickson and his colleagues at DRASTIC (Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Inves...

In prostate cancer, as in life, you roll the dice. In craps, 3+3 is called a "hard six." It's hard because you can only win if you repeat with a combination of 3+3. Any other sixes you roll -- 4+2, 5+1 -- are losers. Gleason 3+3 is a hard six in prostate cancer. It is the lowest grade cancer in the traditional Gleason scoring system. Still, to the eye of a pathologist, a Gleason 6 looks like a malignancy. Now, a few experts are questioning whether this hard six is a cancer at all. Some urologists see a Gleason 6 as a noncancerous growth that has the potential to be invasive, but most like...

Jan. 2, 2021 Great Lakes Helicopters, out of Cambridge, Ont., is ferrying Canadian snowbirds to Buffalo for their drive to Florida. The company subcontracts with transportation companies that bring customers' cars over the border. Sharon Cantillon With Florida beckoning, Canadian snowbirds 'chopper off to Buffalo' to cross the border With the U.S.-Canada border closure extending through fall into winter, Canadian snowbirds have had to consider alternate transportation to reach Florida's warmth, particularly if they were committed to bringing their own vehicles. Great L...

But there is other news on the horizon. Talks over Bills Stadium in Orchard Park are likely to ramp up in earnest. New York State and the Seneca Nation must renegotiate the compact that authorizes the Seneca casinos. A downtown tech hub is poised to bring new life into the city's tallest building – if workers get back to the office. There will be political intrigue, too. The offices of Erie County sheriff and comptroller are up for election, and eyes will be on whether or not Mayor Byron W. Brown seeks a record fifth term. And plenty of uncertainty, too. Will schools get back to norma...

How Mink, Like Humans, Were Slammed by the Coronavirus Rampaging infections at farms caused scandal, scientific head-scratching and a search for a vaccine — for mink. Mink on a farm in Herning, Denmark, last month.Credit...Ole Jensen/Getty Images Published Dec. 23, 2020Updated Jan. 22, 2021 Denmark’s mink industry is gone, a victim of the coronavirus. The nation killed all its 17 million mink because of fears of a mutation in the virus that had spread from mink to people. Separately, in Utah, farmed mink infected with the virus seem to have passed it on somehow to at least one wild mink, ...