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Unvaccinated, homebound and now hospitalized with Covid in New York City

Dr. Leora Horwitz treats fewer and fewer Covid patients at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. Still, she thinks there are too many.

16 Jun 2021

Precise manipulation of folate metabolism may pave way to broadly improve health during aging

Several different causes of aging have been discovered, but the question remains whether there are common underlying mechanisms that determine ageing and lifespan.

16 Jun 2021

Over-the-counter fungicide holds potential to disrupt steroid hormone levels

The active ingredient in medicines commonly used to treat yeast infections has the potential to disrupt steroid hormone levels, according to a study from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark.

16 Jun 2021

New computational topology strategy to identify existing medicines for treating COVID-19

Researchers from the ESI International Chair of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) and ESI Group have just published in scientific journal Pharmaceutics a new computational topology strategy to identify existing medicines that could be applied to treat COVID-19 without waiting for the research and clinical trial phases required to develop a new medicine.

16 Jun 2021

Gut microbiome impacts stroke severity and post-stroke functional impairment

New findings from Cleveland Clinic researchers show for the first time that the gut microbiome impacts stroke severity and functional impairment following stroke.

16 Jun 2021

Reducing coronavirus-related mortality through senolytics

A study recently published in the journal Science explores the concept of senescent cells (SnC) having a hyperinflammatory response and the use of a class of small molecules called senolytics to combat this.

16 Jun 2021

Researchers demonstrate a potentially powerful strategy for treating cystic fibrosis

UNC School of Medicine scientists led a collaboration of researchers to demonstrate a potentially powerful new strategy for treating cystic fibrosis (CF) and potentially a wide range of other diseases.

16 Jun 2021

COVID-e-Vax DNA vaccine candidate elicits robust immune responses in preclinical trials

A new study, released as a preprint on the bioRxiv* server, describes the late-stage clinical trial efficacy of a new vaccine candidate based on a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) plasmid platform expressing the receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Among different constructs of the vaccine plasmid, the RBD was found to produce the most potent and broad immune response.

16 Jun 2021

New study sheds light on the invariant rate of aging hypothesis

A study led by Fernando Colchero, University of Southern Denmark and Susan Alberts, Duke University, North Carolina, that included researchers from 42 institutions across 14 countries, provides new insights into the aging theory "the invariant rate of aging hypothesis", which states that every species has a relatively fixed rate of aging.

16 Jun 2021

Bioactive packaging can keep strawberries fresh for up to 12 days

Québec produces more strawberries than any other Canadian province. Strawberries are delicate and difficult to keep fresh. In response to this challenge, Monique Lacroix, a professor at at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique, and her team have developed a packaging film that can keep strawberries fresh for up to 12 days.

16 Jun 2021

Collecting FEMA funeral money takes some tenacity — and help

As a funeral director at Ingold Funeral and Cremation in Fontana, California, Jessica Rodriguez helps families say goodbye to their loved ones. "We serve predominantly Latino families, most of them second- and third-generation" residents, said Rodriguez. "We do have quite a few that are first-generation, that don't speak any English."

16 Jun 2021

Health applications on mobiles responsible for numerous privacy violations

An analysis of 20, 000 health-related mobile applications has found "serious problems with privacy" from sharing private information to tracking user location.

16 Jun 2021

Novavax COVID vaccine co-administered with flu vaccine appears safe and effective

Researchers from the UK recently reported the results of a sub-study that evaluates the safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of the NVX-CoV2373 vaccine when co-administered with an approved seasonal influenza vaccine.

16 Jun 2021

How coordination between the brains and bodies of infants develop during sleep

To better understand the processes that take place while infants sleep, a group of researchers studied the twitching movements of infants during REM sleep.

16 Jun 2021

Increased viral replication and shedding in nonhuman primates carrying SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant

A team of researchers from the US and UK used the AGM intranasal model of SARS-CoV-2 infection to determine differences between a contemporary SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant circulating in summer 2020 and the B.1.1.7 UK variant of concern that emerged in late 2020.

16 Jun 2021

Cissampelos pareira (velvetleaf) exhibits anti-SARS-CoV-2 potential

Cissampelos pareira (Cipa), also known as velvetleaf, is a widely used hormone modulator used to treat reproductive disorders and fever. Research has shown that it can inhibit three serotypes of Dengue virus (DENV) and affect various hormones.

16 Jun 2021

Prior vaccination against diphtheria and tetanus associated with less severe COVID-19

The researchers found that individuals with registered diphtheria or tetanus vaccinations were less likely to develop severe COVID-19 than people who had only received other vaccinations. The results of this study are posted to the medRxiv* preprint server.

16 Jun 2021

A study on SARS-CoV-2 proteins for the development of COVID-19 drugs

The authors of the review have grouped the virus proteins into three categories, (a) host-entry, (b) self-acting, and (c) host-interacting. Additionally, individual SARS-CoV-2 proteins are evaluated to be either directly targeted by drugs or block virus-host interactions.

16 Jun 2021

Rapidly evolving SARS-Cov-2 strains may give rise to escape variants

The number of COVID-19 variants is growing rapidly, so much that the scale and scope of mutation may pose a threat to the continuing successful use of the current vaccines and therapies.

16 Jun 2021

Research proposes new theory of human cognitive evolution

The period preceding the emergence of behaviorally modern humans was characterized by dramatic climatic and environmental variability - it is these pressures, occurring over hundreds of thousands of years that shaped human evolution.

16 Jun 2021

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Unvaccinated, homebound and now hospitalized with Covid in New York City

Precise manipulation of folate metabolism may pave way to broadly improve health during aging

Over-the-counter fungicide holds potential to disrupt steroid hormone levels

New computational topology strategy to identify existing medicines for treating COVID-19

Gut microbiome impacts stroke severity and post-stroke functional impairment

Reducing coronavirus-related mortality through senolytics

Researchers demonstrate a potentially powerful strategy for treating cystic fibrosis

COVID-e-Vax DNA vaccine candidate elicits robust immune responses in preclinical trials

New study sheds light on the invariant rate of aging hypothesis

Bioactive packaging can keep strawberries fresh for up to 12 days

Collecting FEMA funeral money takes some tenacity — and help

Health applications on mobiles responsible for numerous privacy violations

Novavax COVID vaccine co-administered with flu vaccine appears safe and effective

How coordination between the brains and bodies of infants develop during sleep

Increased viral replication and shedding in nonhuman primates carrying SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant

Cissampelos pareira (velvetleaf) exhibits anti-SARS-CoV-2 potential

Prior vaccination against diphtheria and tetanus associated with less severe COVID-19

A study on SARS-CoV-2 proteins for the development of COVID-19 drugs

Rapidly evolving SARS-Cov-2 strains may give rise to escape variants

Research proposes new theory of human cognitive evolution

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