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AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine protects against symptomatic disease

Results from a large clinical trial in the United States and South America indicate that AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine, AZD1222, is well-tolerated and protects against symptomatic COVID-19 disease, including severe disease or hospitalization.

22 Mar 2021

Inherited behaviors, traits that appear during adolescence may be related to adult cannabis use

While some youth experiment with marijuana but don't go on to long-term use, others develop a problematic pot habit that continues into adulthood.

22 Mar 2021

Chaotic genetic changes drive the growth of melanomas

Melbourne researchers have revealed how melanoma cells are flooded with DNA changes as this skin cancer progresses from early, treatable stages through to fatal end-stage disease.

22 Mar 2021

Novel technology may reveal the brain's mysteries

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Northwestern University, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), has developed novel technology promising to increase understanding of how brains develop, and offer answers on repairing brains in the wake of neurotrauma and neurodegenerative diseases.

22 Mar 2021

Ubiquitous microplastics can become 'hubs' for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

It's estimated that an average-sized wastewater treatment plant serving roughly 400,000 residents will discharge up to 2,000,000 microplastic particles into the environment each day.

22 Mar 2021

New study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and eczema

A study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as well as biological pathways that lead to these conditions, has begun.

22 Mar 2021

Consumption of processed meat associated with increased risk of dementia

Scientists from the University of Leeds's Nutritional Epidemiology Group used data from 500,000 people, discovering that consuming a 25g serving of processed meat a day, the equivalent to one rasher of bacon, is associated with a 44% increased risk of developing the disease.

21 Mar 2021

Genetic engineering strategy dramatically reduces tau levels in Alzheimer's animal model

Researchers have used a genetic engineering strategy to dramatically reduce levels of tau--a key protein that accumulates and becomes tangled in the brain during the development of Alzheimer's disease--in an animal model of the condition.

21 Mar 2021

ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021 features the hottest science in prevention of heart disease

Stay tuned for the hottest science in the prevention of heart disease at ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology.

20 Mar 2021

New cellular device with computing capacity could be used outside the laboratory

The Research Group on Synthetic Biology for Biomedical Applications at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, has designed a cellular device capable of computing by printing cells on paper. For the first time, they have developed a living device that could be used outside the laboratory without a specialist, and it could be produced on an industrial scale at low cost.

20 Mar 2021

Newly discovered enzyme on deadly fungus may be the key to fight fungal infection

Aspergillus fumigatus kills as many people as malaria and tuberculosis, but is less known. It is found "everywhere", for example in the soil or in our compost, but is not normally dangerous to healthy people.

20 Mar 2021

Exposure to endocrine disruptors in utero associated with poorer sperm quality in adulthood

A growing number of studies show that the environmental factors and lifestyle habits of pregnant women play an important role in the health of their child. But how about the semen quality of young men?

19 Mar 2021

Hidden genetic defects can lead to all kinds of serious illnesses

For the first time researchers from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Radboudumc, Maastricht UMC+ and international colleagues have gained insight into the "hidden genetic defects" of the general European population.

19 Mar 2021

New antibiotic compound can effectively clear multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in animals

A new antibiotic compound clears infection of multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in mice in a single oral dose, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State and Emory University.

19 Mar 2021

Researchers unveil a neuroprotective pathway that suppresses ALS

In general, the RAN proteins are more abundant in the cell nucleus, but in patients with Lou Gehrig's disease, they begin to leak out into the cytoplasm, thereby resulting in abnormal concentration differences.

19 Mar 2021

Developing a COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated E. coli

A team of researchers inactivated whole-cell E.coli with a reduced genome and utilized this to express coronavirus-specific fusion peptides, demonstrating a potent anamnestic response.

19 Mar 2021

DNA spike-ins increase reliability of amplicon-based sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

In the interests of cost-effectiveness and rapidity, amplicon-based sequencing of the viral genome has been used to provide a sensitive means of genomic surveillance. A new preprint, which was released on the bioRxiv* server, shows how this can be tweaked to make it a reliable source of genomic data by reducing the known potential for contamination.

19 Mar 2021

Researchers characterize regions of DNA that impact MECP2 expression

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital (NRI) have identified and characterized two regions of DNA required for the proper expression of Mecp2/MECP2 in mice and humans.

19 Mar 2021

Diagnostic test helps identify the virulent forms of swine bacterial pathogens

A team led by researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has developed a diagnostic test that can identify virulent forms of the swine bacterial pathogen Streptococcus equi subspecies zooepidemicus -- often referred to as "Strep zoo" -- which can cause severe illness and death in pigs, other animals and rarely people.

19 Mar 2021

Study reveals how SARS-CoV-2 spread in Wuhan before the lockdown

Using molecular dating tools and epidemiological simulations, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues at the University of Arizona and Illumina, Inc., estimate that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was likely circulating undetected for at most two months before the first human cases of COVID-19 were described in Wuhan, China in late-December 2019.

19 Mar 2021

Genetic News and Research

AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine protects against symptomatic disease

Inherited behaviors, traits that appear during adolescence may be related to adult cannabis use

Chaotic genetic changes drive the growth of melanomas

Novel technology may reveal the brain's mysteries

Ubiquitous microplastics can become 'hubs' for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

New study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and eczema

Consumption of processed meat associated with increased risk of dementia

Genetic engineering strategy dramatically reduces tau levels in Alzheimer's animal model

ESC Preventive Cardiology 2021 features the hottest science in prevention of heart disease

New cellular device with computing capacity could be used outside the laboratory

Newly discovered enzyme on deadly fungus may be the key to fight fungal infection

Exposure to endocrine disruptors in utero associated with poorer sperm quality in adulthood

Hidden genetic defects can lead to all kinds of serious illnesses

New antibiotic compound can effectively clear multi-drug resistant gonorrhea in animals

Researchers unveil a neuroprotective pathway that suppresses ALS

Developing a COVID-19 vaccine using inactivated E. coli

DNA spike-ins increase reliability of amplicon-based sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

Researchers characterize regions of DNA that impact MECP2 expression

Diagnostic test helps identify the virulent forms of swine bacterial pathogens

Study reveals how SARS-CoV-2 spread in Wuhan before the lockdown

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