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HFW Community | In conversation with Gareth Thomas

HFW Community | In conversation with Gareth Thomas

Please join us on Wednesday 3 November at 7pm GMT, where Gareth Thomas, a respected figure in rugby and an advocate for LGBTQ+ issues and HIV awareness will join us for the latest in our HFW Community event series.

Hosted by HFW partner, Richard Neylon and COO Sid Welham, this webinar will hear Gareth discuss his playing career, his TV career and how he has strived to raise awareness around key issues, in particular LGBTQ+ equality, mental health...

https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/10/12/hfw-community-in-conversation-with-gareth-thomas/

[Watch] The Virus That Showed the Way for Fast Track COVID Response

Today as the Covid vaccine rolls out all over the world in record time, a look back on another virus research, HIV shows how such a mammoth task could be achieved. 

HIV research of more than 3 decades paved the way for all virus studies and research work and because of that we are seeing such a massive success in COVID, reports the Wall Street Journal. 

Here’s a look into their investigative report.

A Cunning Mutating Virus That Showed the Way

As states and hospitals in the U.S. race to roll out...

https://mfame.guru/watch-the-virus-that-showed-the-way-for-fast-track-covid-response/

Tracing the End of Pandemics Through Generations

Illustration of the bacteria yersinia pestis, which lives on fleas that live on rats

10 months into the pandemic, there’s no reprieve from the disease and everyone is looking for an end date. Amidst this, the BBC underlines how pandemics end with animated visual stories from the past, from the survivors of previous pandemics. Let’s take a look at how pandemics end.

We are in the grip of a pandemic like none other in living memory. While people are pinning their hopes on a vaccine to wipe it out, the fact is most of the infections faced by our ancestors are still with us.

This is...

https://mfame.guru/tracing-the-end-of-pandemics-through-generations/

Coronavirus Develops HIV like Tentacles To Infect More Cells

Tendrils reach out from a coronavirus-infected cell.
  • The coronavirus has evolved in multiple ways to infect more cells
  • New research caught the virus with HIV like filopodia tentacles infecting healthy cells
  • this has resulted in treatment proposals by scientists similar to those of cancer.
  • Some cancer drugs like ralimetinib can disrupt the filopodia chemical signals and prevent the virus from infecting cells
  • Scientists are not sure at what stage of infection this happens and whether it’s a secondary mode of infection

According to a Los Angeles...

https://mfame.guru/coronavirus-develops-hiv-like-tentacles-to-infect-more-cells/