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How effective have COVID-19 control measures been in the UK?

Researchers in the UK and Australia have shown that epidemiologic models accounting for people’s behavior outside of measures introduced to control the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic improve estimates of how effective such interventions have been.

21 Dec 2020

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission in large urban areas

A team of international researchers used mobility information and socio-demographic data to build a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to understand where, when, and how many transmission events occurred in the first wave of the pandemic in the United States.

18 Dec 2020

Cell atlas helps better understand the biology of tropical disease parasite

The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been developed by researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators.

18 Dec 2020

Continued vigilance is required in England following exit from second lockdown

Researchers in the UK have presented data from the latest in a series of community surveys assessing the prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in England.

17 Dec 2020

How does the UK’s COVID-19 response compare to others in Europe?

Researchers modeled the health benefits and economic loss caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the UK and compared them to four other western European countries. Their results suggest the British Government’s response may outweigh the economic loss incurred.

17 Dec 2020

Gene surfing caused the SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant to rise to dominance in the US

A recent preprint that appeared on the bioRxiv* server applies a new approach to conventional birth-death lineage modeling.

17 Dec 2020

WHO and HRP launch “Labour Care Guide” to improve women’s experience of childbirth

WHO and HRP launch the Labour Care Guide to improve every woman's experience of childbirth, and to help ensure the health and well-being of women and their babies.

15 Dec 2020

Study explores new parasitic worm that affects reproduction in Caribbean spiny lobster

A Clemson University researcher is studying how a new parasitic worm he discovered and named after comedian and late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien affects reproduction in the Caribbean spiny lobster.

15 Dec 2020

Scientists get closer to finding the genes for maleness in weeds

Scientists are getting closer to finding the genes for maleness in waterhemp and Palmer amaranth, two of the most troublesome agricultural weeds in the U.S.

11 Dec 2020

COVID-19 pandemic highlights uncertainty inherent in science

The COVID-19 pandemic has once again highlighted the uncertainty inherent in science. The results of a Germany-wide study conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Charite - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin show that most Germans want to be openly informed about this uncertainty.

10 Dec 2020

Researchers develop analytical model to gauge SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in schools

Research highlight the risk of virus spread in schools in the Netherlands. Since most schools across countries have resumed in-person or face-to-face classes, knowing the virus's risk and transmission dynamics in this context is crucial.

9 Dec 2020

Developing antimicrobial products with resistance to coronavirus

In this interview, News-Medical spoke to Charles Churchman, Co-founder of Veraco, about their antimicrobial products that have been designed to have resistance to coronavirus.

9 Dec 2020

Link between evolution of microevolution and macroevolution could provide new foundation for biology

A link between evolution over short time frames (microevolution) and long time frames (macroevolution) that could open new approaches to understanding some of biology's deepest questions is proposed by Dr Owen Gilbert of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in a new paper, published in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal Rethinking Ecology.

8 Dec 2020