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How well does hybrid immunity protect against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants?

A new study explores the protection elicited by hybrid immunity against SARS-CoV-2 variants.

14 Aug 2022

Why is COVID-19 more severe in people older than 50?

A new study reports that the reduced efficiency of the immune response against SARS-CoV-2 could be due to the reduced diversity of both B- and T-cells.

14 Aug 2022

Men exposed to industrial air pollution exhibit sperm mitochondrial DNA deletions

Researchers compare the length spectra of sperm mitochondrial DNA deletions in two seasons with varied air pollution levels.

14 Aug 2022

How does birth weight affect long-term risk of mortality among men and women?

Researchers evaluate the relationship between birth weight and cause-specific mortality.

14 Aug 2022

Older heart muscle cells accumulate new genetic mutations -; while losing the ability to repair them

Why does the risk of heart disease go up as we age? Known risk factors such as hypertension or high cholesterol don't explain all cases.

12 Aug 2022

New method for 3D culture accurately quantifies how cancer cells generate forces to spread within tissue

Research to understand how cancers grow and spread has conventionally been done on two-dimensional, flat cultures of cells, which is very different to the three-dimensional structure of cells in the body.

12 Aug 2022

What is the impact of heat treatment on monkeypox virus?

In newly released research, investigators determined the inactivation of monkeypox virus (MPXV) by heat treatment.

12 Aug 2022

What are the unique traits of Long COVID?

In a new study, researchers identified distinctive characteristics of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) via immune profiling.

12 Aug 2022

What is the impact of COVID-19 on male reproductive health?

In a recent study, researchers assessed male reproductive health three months after COVID-19 infection.

12 Aug 2022

Remdesivir activates urotensin II receptor and induces cardiomyocyte dysfunction

In newly released research, scientists assessed the cardiac effects of remdesivir.

12 Aug 2022

Scientists develop a smart contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes

Scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential for being diagnostic cancer biomarkers.

12 Aug 2022

How should we react to the global monkeypox outbreak?

In a new study, researchers assessed the various aspects of the global monkeypox outbreak.

12 Aug 2022

Experts urge FDA to include T cell responses when evaluating COVID vaccines

Now, a group of prominent scientists and physicians are urging the FDA to include in its guidance to vaccine developers a recommendation for T-cell assessment in COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials to more comprehensively measure immune response.

11 Aug 2022

How does COVID-19 increase clotting risk?

An in-depth review article describing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related coagulopathy has recently been published in the journal Nature Reviews Immunology.

11 Aug 2022

Gene discovery could help develop new tools to prevent strokes and heart attacks

Heart attacks and strokes are a leading cause of death in the United States, but scientists are still working to understand one of their primary triggers.

11 Aug 2022

Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies being developed for respiratory syncytial virus

A new study reviews recent advancements made in the development of RSV immunoprophylactic measures.

11 Aug 2022

Researchers identify genes that become active when carotid plaque rupture leads to a stroke

Researchers at Ochsner Health and Tulane University School of Medicine have identified the genes that become active in carotid arteries when plaque rupture causes a stroke.

11 Aug 2022

Elevated acetate levels reprogram gut microbiota during alcohol intake

Chronic alcohol use is a major cause of liver damage and death: Approximately 30,000 persons in the United States die annually from alcoholic liver diseases, such as cirrhosis.

11 Aug 2022

Study highlights the urgent need for combinatorial drug therapies for SARS-CoV-2

Researchers investigated the susceptibility of naturally-occurring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 main protease variants to protease inhibitor drugs, including nirmatrelvir and ensitrelvir.

11 Aug 2022

Assessment of replicon ribonucleic acid COVID-19 vaccine in nonhuman primates

Researchers explored the immunogenicity of a replicon ribonucleic acid (repRNA) COVID-19 vaccine, repRNA-CoV2S, in pigtail macaques.

11 Aug 2022

B Cell News and Research

How well does hybrid immunity protect against SARS-CoV-2 and its variants?

Why is COVID-19 more severe in people older than 50?

Men exposed to industrial air pollution exhibit sperm mitochondrial DNA deletions

How does birth weight affect long-term risk of mortality among men and women?

Older heart muscle cells accumulate new genetic mutations -; while losing the ability to repair them

New method for 3D culture accurately quantifies how cancer cells generate forces to spread within tissue

What is the impact of heat treatment on monkeypox virus?

What are the unique traits of Long COVID?

What is the impact of COVID-19 on male reproductive health?

Remdesivir activates urotensin II receptor and induces cardiomyocyte dysfunction

Scientists develop a smart contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes

How should we react to the global monkeypox outbreak?

Experts urge FDA to include T cell responses when evaluating COVID vaccines

How does COVID-19 increase clotting risk?

Gene discovery could help develop new tools to prevent strokes and heart attacks

Vaccines and monoclonal antibodies being developed for respiratory syncytial virus

Researchers identify genes that become active when carotid plaque rupture leads to a stroke

Elevated acetate levels reprogram gut microbiota during alcohol intake

Study highlights the urgent need for combinatorial drug therapies for SARS-CoV-2

Assessment of replicon ribonucleic acid COVID-19 vaccine in nonhuman primates

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