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Melissa Couto Zuber Tourists from Wuhan, China, some with double face masks, stand in a line for a charter flight back to Wuhan at the Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe January 28, 2021 - 12:29 PM Increasing concerns over more infectious COVID-19 variants has led some to wonder whether our face masks need an upgrade. Should we layer two masks on top of each other, as politicians and spectators at the U.S. presidential inauguration did earlier this month? Should we replace cloth masks with medica...

From double-masking to medical-grade masks, is it time to ramp up protection? by Melissa Couto Zuber, The Canadian Press Posted Jan 28, 2021 1:40 pm EDT Last Updated Jan 28, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT Increasing concerns over more infectious COVID-19 variants has led some to wonder whether our face masks need an upgrade. Should we layer two masks on top of each other, as politicians and spectators at the U.S. presidential inauguration did earlier this month? Should we replace cloth masks with medical-grade ones, like some countries in Europe are now recommending? And should we wear masks even when o...

Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan Sells Pluto Rocket Graphic Novel to Tundra Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan Sells Pluto Rocket Graphic Novel to Tundra Posted on King of the Mole People and its sequel Rise of the Slugs, has sold his latest graphic novel series , Pluto Rocket, to Tundra Editorial Assistant Peter Phillips and Pooch Cafe's Paul Gilligan Sells Pluto Rocket Graphic Novel to Tundra The new early graphic novel series "follows Joe Pidge, a boastful city pigeon who thinks he knows it all, and Pluto, a pink creature who arrives from outer space and needs help fitting in". Tundra will publish t...

The Tablet January 15, 2021 This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disc and showing how colliding galaxies trigger the birth of new stars. (Photo: CNS/NASA) MANHATTAN — After an unexpected 2020, this year began with Jupiter, Pluto, and Saturn’s conjunction — a nighttime view akin to the North Star that led the Magi to the Baby Jesus. For some, the sight was a reminder of just how beautiful God’s creation is, even in the most difficult times. This year has already been another for unexpected...

COVID-19 cases continue to escalate worldwide The original announcement by the National Research Council of Canada is available at bit.ly/2JRa4fQ. BOLD-100 is a first-in-class ruthenium-based small molecule drug which selectively inhibits stress-induced upregulation of the chaperone protein GRP78. Currently, the investigational treatment is in a Phase 1b clinical trial in gastrointestinal cancer. In cancer, GRP78 plays a critical role in resistance, survival and proliferation, whereas in viral infections, GRP78 plays a critical role in host recognition, viral entry and viral replication. Prec...