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Microbiome research opens up new perspectives for healthy and climate-resilient crops

Agriculture is facing enormous challenges worldwide due to global changes caused by human activities. Drought, severe weather events, record temperatures and emerging pathogens threaten the world's food supply.

30 Nov 2021

Money recovered in corruption case used for providing life-saving support to vulnerable people in Chad

More than 150,000 people in Chad have been helped with lifesaving UK aid, including emergency food supplies, funded by £4.4 million recovered in a corruption case by the Serious Fraud Office.

29 Nov 2021

SPORE-funded Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern reports wide array of tumor models to date

Funded by a Specialized Program of Research Excellence award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern's Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center reports the largest and most diverse catalog of kidney cancer tumor models to date.

29 Nov 2021

Black tech founders want to change the culture of health care, one click at a time

When Ashlee Wisdom launched an early version of her health and wellness website, more than 34,000 users — most of them Black — visited the platform in the first two weeks.

29 Nov 2021

Using dried blood spots to monitor SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at home

The Roche Elecsys® anti-SARS-CoV-2 S immunoassay was used to demonstrate its ability to measure SARS-CoV-2 antibodies from DBS samples.

28 Nov 2021

Vaccination provides full protection against severe outcomes of COVID-19 among U.S. Coast Guard

Researchers performed a time-series analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination in the U.S. CG against SARS-CoV-2 infection.

28 Nov 2021

A review of natural immunity, vaccines, and variants in SARS-CoV-2 reinfection

In a literature review article published in the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, authors from the US performed a thorough investigation of previous studies and case reports of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection. This review discusses the role of natural immunity, vaccines, and SARS-CoV-2 variants in reinfection.

25 Nov 2021

Specific type of gut bacteria linked to enhanced memory in bumblebees

An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory.

25 Nov 2021

Method can help identify proteins in the body affected by chemicals

How do pollutants and other chemicals that we are exposed to affect our health? Researchers from Linköping University, Sweden, have applied a method to identify the proteins in the body affected by chemicals.

25 Nov 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant mutation sites

A new review article dissected the sites of mutation in the RBD of the Delta variant and other variants of concern and variants of alert and interest.

25 Nov 2021

New citizen science project to investigate bacteria found on chopping boards

Researchers in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Aston University have been awarded funds to explore the microbiome of the kitchen chopping board with the help of 'citizen scientists'.

24 Nov 2021

The antimicrobial properties of the lungfish cocoon

Researchers investigate if the immune system of lungfish plays a role in estivation.

24 Nov 2021

Switching from restricted diet to unlimited food could be beneficial for reproduction in later life

Switching from a restricted diet to eating as much as you like could be beneficial for reproduction in later life, according to new research from the University of East Anglia.

24 Nov 2021

How does penicillin work?

In this interview, we spoke to Dr. Bartlomiej Salamaga about his latest research that discovered how penicillin works in the body.

24 Nov 2021

Florida Sen. Rick Scott off base in claim that rise in Medicare premiums is due to inflation

Republicans blame President Joe Biden for this year's historic surge in inflation, reflected in higher prices for almost everything — from cars and gas to food and housing.

24 Nov 2021

Bat coronavirus ecology, evolution, and spillover

In a review published in Nature Reviews Microbiology, the authors collate information about the ecology and evolution of bat coronaviruses.

24 Nov 2021

CDC study finds Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine provides high protection against hospitalization in adolescents

New research from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) suggest vaccines are highly protective against severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine showed a 93% effectiveness against hospitalization. The findings add to a previous clinical trial that found vaccinated adolescents with 100% protection against SARS-CoV-2 infections.

23 Nov 2021

A novel reverse epitope discovery approach to characterize SARS-CoV-2 public CD4+ αβ T cell clonotypes

A new study, published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, has focused on public clonotypes, i.e., clones found in multiple individuals, for the development of a novel reverse epitope discovery technique. This technique holds greater potential for population-wide applications.

23 Nov 2021

Study reveals distinct gut microbial 'signatures' highly responsive to dietary therapy for IBS

People who respond well to the recommended dietary therapy of restricting intake of fermentable carbs for irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS for short, have an abundance of particular types of bacteria in their gut, reveals research published online in the journal Gut.

23 Nov 2021

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The big Biden budget bill passes the House

President Joe Biden's "Build Back Better" social spending bill passed the House last week, but the legislation faces a new and different set of hurdles in the Senate, where it will need the support of every single Democrat, plus approval by the Senate parliamentarian.

23 Nov 2021

Food News and Research

Microbiome research opens up new perspectives for healthy and climate-resilient crops

Money recovered in corruption case used for providing life-saving support to vulnerable people in Chad

SPORE-funded Kidney Cancer Program at UT Southwestern reports wide array of tumor models to date

Black tech founders want to change the culture of health care, one click at a time

Using dried blood spots to monitor SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at home

Vaccination provides full protection against severe outcomes of COVID-19 among U.S. Coast Guard

A review of natural immunity, vaccines, and variants in SARS-CoV-2 reinfection

Specific type of gut bacteria linked to enhanced memory in bumblebees

Method can help identify proteins in the body affected by chemicals

SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant mutation sites

New citizen science project to investigate bacteria found on chopping boards

The antimicrobial properties of the lungfish cocoon

Switching from restricted diet to unlimited food could be beneficial for reproduction in later life

How does penicillin work?

Florida Sen. Rick Scott off base in claim that rise in Medicare premiums is due to inflation

Bat coronavirus ecology, evolution, and spillover

CDC study finds Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine provides high protection against hospitalization in adolescents

A novel reverse epitope discovery approach to characterize SARS-CoV-2 public CD4+ αβ T cell clonotypes

Study reveals distinct gut microbial 'signatures' highly responsive to dietary therapy for IBS

KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The big Biden budget bill passes the House

Enhancing confidence in chemical ionization spectrometry data eBook

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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