Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
US lab 'playing with fire' as it creates hybrid super-covid 'with an 80% kill rate'
dailystar.co.uksuper-covid that killed 80% of the mice it was tested on. Boston University scientists combined Omicron and the original Wuhan strain, despite the fact that sort of research is what is thought to be behind the Covid pandemic.
Gain-of-function research improves the ability of a pathogen to cause disease in a bid to inform public health and preparedness efforts, but it can also expose people to the virus inadvertently. READ MORE: 20 most common Covid symptoms now as cases surge by 30% across the UKProfessor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: "This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire."Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: "The research is a clear example of gain of function research.He added: "If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened."The title stated that researchers from Boston and Florida combined Omicron's most dangerous element, its spike protein, and combined it with that of the original Wuhan strain.
The virus uses the spike protein to latch on to and enter the cells it infects. Omicron's spike has dozens of mutations, making it particularly infectious.
When a group of mice were exposed to standard Omicron, they all survived and only experienced 'mild' symptoms. However, 80% of those exposed to the hybrid strain perished. "In...mice, while Omicron causes mild, non-fatal infection, the Omicron S-carrying virus inflicts severe disease with a mortality rate of 80 percent," researchers said.
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