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From a self-made cake boss to a ‘salon for all’: 10 upbeat stories from 2020

From a self-made cake boss to a ‘salon for all’: 10 upbeat stories from 2020

BEH LIH YI FROM a stateless scientist developing COVID-19 vaccine technology to countries wooing "digital nomads" to help revive their economies, there have been brighter headlines in a year dominated by the pandemic. Here are 10 upbeat stories from 2020 about efforts to improve people's lives during the coronavirus outbreak: Stateless scientist works on COVID-19 vaccine technology Stateless Nowras Rahhal, who arrived in Germany two years ago from Syria, is among a team of scientists in Germany working to develop COVID-19 vaccination technology, by allowing vaccines to be applied to the skin rather than injected into muscle. Before leaving Syria,…
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Will COVID-19 change our relationship with meat?

Will COVID-19 change our relationship with meat?

THIN LEI WIN IN a vast, illuminated greenhouse set among Iceland's otherworldly lava fields, the genetically modified shoots of an ancient cereal crop may hold the key to the food of the future. Using abundant geothermal waters for heating and volcanic ash instead of soil, biotech company ORF Genetics is growing barley here to produce growth factors - one of the most important, and costly, ingredients in laboratory-grown meat. Sales of plant-based meats have soared during the pandemic as customers shift diets due to growing unease about factory farming, working conditions in meat-packing plants and suspicion over a possible link between…
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