Microbiology
FILE- This Jan. 7, 2021, file photo, shows the Curevac company headquarters in Tuebingen, Germany. German vaccine maker CureVac said Wednesday, June 16, 2021, that interim data from late-stage testing of its coronavirus shot show a comparatively low effectiveness in protecting people against COVID-19. (Sebastian Gollnow/dpa via AP, File)
Interim trial data shows low effectiveness for CureVac shot

By Frank Jordans Jun. 16, 2021 06:50 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 10, 2021, file photo, health workers and volunteers in personal protective suits wait to receive patients outside a COVID-19 hospital that was set up at a Sikh Gurdwara in New Delhi, India. The World Health Organization said Monday, May 10, that a worrisome variant was first detected in India may spread more easily. Scientists are still trying to figure out if it resulted in the terrifying surge of infections in the nation, and looking to see if this could this happen elsewhere. (AP Photo/Ishant Chauhan, File )
Scientists race to study variants in India as cases explode

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Krutika Pathi May. 12, 2021 12:06 AM EDT

A lab assistant points at a picture of a cluster of Covid-19 RNA molecules on a computer screen at the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, Thursday, March 4, 2021. Cambridge University microbiologist Sharon Peacock understood that genomic sequencing would be crucial in tracking the coronavirus, controlling outbreaks and developing vaccines, so she began working with colleagues around the country to put together a plan when there were just 84 confirmed cases in the country. The initiative helped make Britain a world leader in rapidly analyzing the genetic material from large numbers of COVID-19 infections, generating more than 40% of the genomic sequences identified to date.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
UK variant hunters lead global race to stay ahead of COVID

By Danica Kirka Mar. 28, 2021 02:25 AM EDT

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, a medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient at a vaccination facility in Beijing. China is aiming to vaccinate 70-80% of its population by mid-2022, the head of the country's Center for Disease Control said Saturday.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
China approves another COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

By Huizhong Wu Mar. 16, 2021 12:42 AM EDT

A Pusa Institute of Technology worker sprays bio-decomposer to convert agricultural waste into compost in a field, in a bid to contain farmers from setting fire to their post-harvest fields that need clearing for the next crop season, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020. The smoke from neighboring states travels to New Delhi, leading to a surge in pollution levels in the city of more than 20 million people, exacerbating what is already a public health crisis. But the microbial liquid solution that softens the hard stubble and turns it into compost, thus ruling out the need to burn the agricultural crop, is being billed as a game-changer that can help reduce smoke emissions from India’s vast farmlands. (AP Photo)
Smog returns to Indian capital as agriculture fires start

By Sheikh Saaliq Oct. 16, 2020 02:57 AM EDT

This electron microscope image made available and color-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. University of Hong Kong scientists claim to have the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. They said Monday, Aug. 24, 2020 that genetic tests show a 33-year-old man returning to Hong Kong from a trip to Spain in mid-August had a different strain of the coronavirus than the one he’d previously been infected with in March. (NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP)
Scientists say Hong Kong man got coronavirus a second time

By Marilynn Marchione Aug. 24, 2020 02:13 PM EDT

Professor held on murder charges denied bail a second time

Jun. 12, 2020 06:34 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Northwestern University professor accused of murdering his boyfriend was again denied release Friday from a Chicago jail so that his...

FILE - In this April 26, 2019 file photo, former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden rides in a car after appearing on ABC's "The View" in New York. On Friday, May 29, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a video circulating online appearing to show the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate on “The View” avoiding a question about inappropriate touching. The video, taken from Biden’s April 26, 2019, appearance on the daytime talk show was edited to make it appear he failed to give a direct answer to the question about inappropriate touching and stumbled through the response. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Ali Swenson, Arijeta Lajka, Beatrice Dupuy And Amanda Seitz May. 29, 2020 06:34 PM EDT

North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum issues budget guidelines to North Dakota state agencies for the 2021-23 biennium at a press briefing on Friday morning, May 1, 2020 at the state capitol in Bismarck, N.D.. Gov. Burgum was joined at the briefing by Office of Management & Budget director Joe Morrissette. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)
COVID-19 testing in Fargo scrubbed due to supply shortage

James Macpherson May. 04, 2020 12:23 PM EDT