Could llamas help fight COVID-19? A Richmond company and Canadian biotech coalition hope so

 51 genetic sequences released for free in hopes of accelerating treatment development A Richmond biotech company is part of a Canadian coalition researching a type of antibody found in llamas that could be key to developing a COVID-19 treatment. The Canadian...

Newspaper headlines: Office return ‘hypocrisy’, and flexible hours push

 Despite the government’s appeal for people to go back to the office, The Times says three quarters of the country’s biggest employers are looking at a permanent switch to flexible working. Thirty-two out of 43 companies questioned by the paper...

Here’s how the U.S. could release a COVID-19 vaccine before the election—and why that scares some

 Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. When President Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination for another term last night at the Republican National Convention, he pledged that the push by his...

COVID-19 vaccine diplomacy: Mexico courts allies across ideological spectrum

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is pressing ahead with an effort to forge COVID-19 vaccine alliances across a wide ideological spectrum of countries from France to Cuba as a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine initiative will fall short of its needs. ...

Desperate Peru will begin Covid-19 vaccine testing with volunteers next month

 A team of Chinese scientists is expected to arrive in Peru next week to work with local researchers, said Germán Málaga, lead vaccine investigator at Heredia University Peru will start testing coronavirus vaccines from China’s Sinopharm and US drug...

Japan considers free COVID-19 vaccines for all residents

 An experimental COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at a clinic in London on Aug. 5. | AP / VIA KYODO The Japanese government is considering offering COVID-19 vaccinations for free to all residents, sources close to the matter said Wednesday. The government aims to...