A suicidal man had a good view of the sunset over the Hudson River from his perch on the side of a Manhattan overpass earlier this month. It would likely have been the last thing he'd ever see — apart from the pavement below — were it not for New York Police Department officers Carl Fayette and Eleodor Mata.
"Ideally, a single plant could produce enough mRNA to vaccinate a single person," said an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside.
In November 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that MosquitoMate, Inc. had submitted plans to infect live male mosquitoes with a bacteria called "Wolbachia pipientis," which enhances WNV infection.
The State of California has opened a civil rights investigation into a local school district that adopted a policy requiring schools to notify parents if children want to change their gender.