By: Alex Oh For years, drugs that release brakes on the immune system have been used to treat thousands of people with cancer “that were…
More ‘murder hornets’ are turning up. Here’s what you need to know
By: Alina Dang More murder hornets heve been discovered in the Pacific Northwest in 2020. It is not yet known how the murder hornets got…
Derailing certain cells in immune system can increase tumor-fighting efficiency
By: Benjamin Bian Drugs that help the immune system fight cancers are undoubtedly effective. However, checkpoint blocker therapies may…
Deactivating an Immune Cell Population Could Help Fight Cancer
By: Leyuan Zhou An immune cell population called Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells, or MDSCs, has the ability to stall against checkpoint…
Trump administration considers travel ban on Chinese Communist Party members
By: April Feng The Trump administration has recently announced a drafted presidential proclamation on a travel ban of Chinese Communist Party members and their families. The legislation would unequivocally heighten…
U.S. Government, Not Private Sector, Purchases Millions of Vaccine Doses
By: April Feng This Wednesday, the Trump Administration announced their unusual commitment to purchase 100 million doses of an incomplete vaccine. In the United States, the private sector typically purchases…
As U.S. Cases Hit 3.5 Million, Officials Scramble to Add Restrictions
By: Jonathan Xu The United States’ situation with the coronavirus has only gone downhill recently. The CDC has reported that yesterday (Wednesday, July 15th) had over 67,300 new cases in…
Getting Infected Twice? Not Likely!
By: Jonathan Xu There are many accounts and stories of people testing positive twice for COVID-19, the second time becoming many times worse than the first time. One report is…
China’s Economic Turnaround From Corona is Steadily Falling
By: Kathleen Guo As global cases continue to rise, countries are slowly trying to adapt and move forward while still being cautious. People are growing more and more aggravated by…
Tensions Continue to Rise Between China and the U.S.
By: Kathleen Guo Tensions between China and the United States have reached the most acute levels since the countries normalized diplomatic relations more than four decades ago, with the American…