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Facebook users from a number of countries complain about failures in the social network

The drug Metformin, used to treat type 2 diabetes, may reduce the risk of death in women with COVID-19.

Those who work at home during the coronavirus pandemic may have a sore throat, scientists from Trinity College in Dublin have come to this conclusion, according to the Daily Mail.

Microsoft founder bill gates has suggested that the world will face a new pandemic.

Analysts of the American magazine Consumer Reports have compiled a rating of brands that produce the most reliable cars in the world.

Using the method of transcriptomics, American biologists have established what set of proteins each pair of salivary glands produces and what function they perform as part of saliva.

A group of American scientists concluded that the coronavirus reproduces most easily in the mouth, according to a Preprint of an article published on the medRxiv portal.

Scientists have identified more than 300 proteins produced by the infected cell that interact with the above viruses. At the same time, the number of viral particles in the human body is affected by less — about 20.
Among them is the Tom70 receptor protein, which is involved in the movement of protein molecules from the cytosol to the mitochondria and the activation of mitochondrial signaling proteins. Thus, Tom70 helps coronaviruses, but when interacting with the coronavirus Orf9b gene, this enzyme can be used as a drug target for broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, the researchers note.

Meghan Markle took part in the virtual summit of the most influential women of the next generation, which is organized by Fortune.