When Lucille later discusses the idea with Cyril, her career transition is not as well-received as she’d hoped. Cyril worries about how Lucille retraining and requalifying for a new job will impact their lives, and Lucille similarly expresses concerns over Cyril finding a civil engineering job at all. Their argument escalates, and Cyril storms out before they can finish talking about their plans. He spends the night collecting his thoughts before eventually making his way to the Buckles’ store the next morning where Fred has an important envelope waiting for him. Read More...
By Fergus WalshMedical editor
BBCThey are the husband and wife team behind one the most successful Covid vaccines, yet in the UK they are barely known.
Professors Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci co-founded the German company BioNTech in 2008, exploring new technology involving messenger RNA (mRNA), to treat cancer.
When the pandemic struck they partnered with Pfizer to use the same approach to create a Covid vaccine.
Now the doctors are hopeful it could lead to new treatments for melanoma, bowel cancer and other tumour types. Read More...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Hurricane Maria delivered a destructive full-body blow to this U.S. territory on Wednesday, ripping off metal roofs, generating terrifying and potentially lethal flash floods, knocking out 100 percent of the island’s electrical grid and decimating some communities.
With sustained winds of 155 mph at landfall — a strong Category 4 storm and nearly a Category 5 — Maria was so powerful that it disabled radar, weather stations and cell towers across Puerto Rico, leaving an information vacuum in which officials could only speculate about property damage, injuries or deaths. Read More...