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Study: Understanding the reasons behind vaccine hesitancy is key to boosting global uptake of immunization

Exploring complex reasons behind hesitancy for new vaccinations and better education for healthcare professionals is key to boosting global uptake of immunization against diseases and viruses including Covid-19, a study shows.

26 Oct 2021

Identification of long COVID patients using big data

A new preprint exploits big data to come up with some answers as to the incidence, treatment, and impact on healthcare systems of long covid.

26 Oct 2021

Post COVID-19 affects children as well as adults

A new study presents data on long covid in adults and children, which is becoming a major issue in public health planning.

26 Oct 2021

High and increasing SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence amongst school-aged children in England

The latest round of the REACT-1 study indicates SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread among children.

26 Oct 2021

Study identifies how cancer cells transform macrophages into supporters of their growth

A Ludwig Cancer Research study has identified a means by which cancer cells engineer the conversion of immune cells known as macrophages from destroyers of tumors to supporters of their growth and survival.

26 Oct 2021

Sexually dimorphic placental antibody transfer during SARS-CoV-2 infection

In a paper recently published in the journal Science Translational Medicine by Bordt et al. (October 19th, 2021), maternal SARS-CoV-2 infections are studied with particular regard to maternal-fetal antibody transfer and virus-induced placental interferon responses, finding a sexually dimorphic response that results in lesser antibody transfer to the male fetus.

26 Oct 2021

Immune response to mRNA COVID vaccines delayed in pregnant women

Researchers in the United States have conducted comprehensive profiling of humoral immune responses in pregnant, lactating, and non-pregnant women following coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination to probe differences in vaccine-induced immunity.

25 Oct 2021

Water and surface surveillance can detect 93% of school-based COVID-19 cases

A new study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server explores environmental surveillance of elementary school settings for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) through wastewater and surface samples monitoring. The researchers demonstrated that 93% of the COVID-19 cases in public elementary schools could be identified using this method.

25 Oct 2021

N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is key to breakthrough infections

A study in the Philadelphia area found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants evolve to become more contagious and resistant to COVID-19 vaccines. In addition, depending on the sublineage, SARS-CoV-2 variants such as the Delta variant led to a three-fold increased risk for vaccine breakthrough cases.

25 Oct 2021

SARS-CoV-2 delta variant generates infections more quickly than previous strains

Researchers in the UK have conducted a study suggesting that the B.1.617.2 (delta) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – is transmitted more quickly than previously circulating variants.

25 Oct 2021

COVID-19's impact on excess mortality in 2020 varied widely across Europe

A team of researchers has demonstrated that the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on excess mortality varied widely both between and within five European countries in 2020.

25 Oct 2021

Regulating blood insulin levels in obese, diabetic patients may help reduce COVID-19 risk

Keeping blood insulin levels within strict, healthy parameters is a daily goal for people with diabetes. But now, researchers from Japan have found that regulating blood insulin levels may even help lower the risk of getting COVID-19.

25 Oct 2021

Can targeting autophagy become a new approach to COVID-19 treatment?

In a recent review, the author discusses autophagy as a contributing mechanism of selected drugs that are currently being evaluated to treat COVID‐19.

25 Oct 2021

Researchers investigate SARS-CoV-2 specific immunity in young Swedish adults

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have analyzed the presence of SARS-CoV-2-specific antibodies and memory cells of the immune system in young adults.

25 Oct 2021

UC study finds coping mechanisms that helped COVID-19 patients deal with loss of smell

One of the most common and disturbing side effects of COVID-19 is the loss of the sense of smell. New research from the University of Cincinnati found some common coping mechanisms that helped COVID-19 patients deal with a lessened sense of smell, which severely impacts the sense of taste.

25 Oct 2021

covid 19 News and Research

Study: Understanding the reasons behind vaccine hesitancy is key to boosting global uptake of immunization

Identification of long COVID patients using big data

Post COVID-19 affects children as well as adults

High and increasing SARS-CoV-2 infection prevalence amongst school-aged children in England

Study identifies how cancer cells transform macrophages into supporters of their growth

Sexually dimorphic placental antibody transfer during SARS-CoV-2 infection

Immune response to mRNA COVID vaccines delayed in pregnant women

Water and surface surveillance can detect 93% of school-based COVID-19 cases

N501Y mutation in SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is key to breakthrough infections

SARS-CoV-2 delta variant generates infections more quickly than previous strains

COVID-19's impact on excess mortality in 2020 varied widely across Europe

Regulating blood insulin levels in obese, diabetic patients may help reduce COVID-19 risk

Can targeting autophagy become a new approach to COVID-19 treatment?

Researchers investigate SARS-CoV-2 specific immunity in young Swedish adults

UC study finds coping mechanisms that helped COVID-19 patients deal with loss of smell

Deployment of UK's Emergency Medical Team in Papua New Guinea will help save lives

Eligible travelers to England can now take a cheaper lateral flow test

A new vaccine approach that could prevent future pandemics

Molecular features of SARS-CoV-2 variant receptor binding

Study finds FDA-approved drug has potent antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern

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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