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Booster vaccination offered additional protection to residents and staff of California state prisons against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron

Researchers evaluated to what extent prior infection and vaccination protected the residents and staff of the United States California state prison system from breakthrough infection by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron sub-variant B.1.1.529.

28 Oct 2022

Study refutes the nicotinic hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanism

A new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein does not bind to human AChR’s orthosteric sites, nor does it compete with ACh, choline, or nicotine.

28 Oct 2022

What are the contemporary hazards of cigarette smoking and benefits of quitting smoking by race, ethnicity, and sex among US adults?

Researchers quantified the association between cigarette smoking and all-cause and cause-specific deaths by sex, ethnicity, and race.

28 Oct 2022

E-cigarette use alters respiration but does not impair lung function, according to new findings

A new study indicated that although vaping increases airway resistance, it does not impact lung function.

28 Oct 2022

The epigenetic alterations of monocytes in severe COVID-19

Researchers performed DNA methylation analysis on monocytes in the peripheral blood samples obtained from severe COVID-19 patients.

28 Oct 2022

When monkeypox reaches rural communities, it collides with strained public health systems

When a case of monkeypox was reported in Nevada's Humboldt County in August, it was the state's first detected occurrence of the virus in a rural area. Soon, cases were found in other rural counties — Nye, Lyon, and Elko — posing another hurdle for public health systems that have been worn thin by the covid-19 pandemic.

28 Oct 2022

Association of COVID-19 severity with nasopharyngeal fungal colonization and interleukin-17 induction

Researchers evaluated the concurrent colonization of fungi in the nasopharynx of severe COVID-19 patients.

28 Oct 2022

The dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation

Researchers studied the dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation—a general tendency to believe in conspiracy theories.

28 Oct 2022

Low-density granulocytes are phenotypically altered in people with long-COVID

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers characterized low-density granulocyte (LDG) neutrophil (NP) proportion among individuals up to 14 months post-SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) infection.

28 Oct 2022

Scientists computationally restore the potency of an antibody against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants

A team of researchers from the United States computationally modified the COV2-2130 monoclonal antibody to restore its neutralizing ability against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron subvariants, while retaining efficacy against the Delta and wild-type strains.

27 Oct 2022

Combination of multi-specificity and antibody avidity enhances protection against SARS-CoV-2

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, an international team of researchers leveraged the human light chain apoferritin protomer-derived MULTI-specific, multi-Affinity antibody (Multabody, MB) platform for the generation of broad and potent SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2)-neutralizing antibodies (Abs).

27 Oct 2022

Updapted BA.4/5 COVID vaccines boost protection but might not surpass original formula

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center assessed the immunogenicity associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) BA.5 bivalent messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine boosters.

27 Oct 2022

Disease/Infection News

Booster vaccination offered additional protection to residents and staff of California state prisons against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron

Study refutes the nicotinic hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanism

What are the contemporary hazards of cigarette smoking and benefits of quitting smoking by race, ethnicity, and sex among US adults?

E-cigarette use alters respiration but does not impair lung function, according to new findings

The epigenetic alterations of monocytes in severe COVID-19

When monkeypox reaches rural communities, it collides with strained public health systems

Association of COVID-19 severity with nasopharyngeal fungal colonization and interleukin-17 induction

The dynamics of COVID-19 conspiracist ideation

Low-density granulocytes are phenotypically altered in people with long-COVID

Scientists computationally restore the potency of an antibody against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants

Combination of multi-specificity and antibody avidity enhances protection against SARS-CoV-2

Updapted BA.4/5 COVID vaccines boost protection but might not surpass original formula

An unprecedented list of health-threatening fungi released by the WHO

Immune checkpoint therapy may be beneficial in certain cases of severe COVID-19

UC San Diego participates in national trial to assess potential treatment for human monkeypox

Unprecedented COVID spikes could overwhelm local jurisdictions, mathematical model suggests

Long COVID, a new clinical entity constantly evolving

In mild cases of COVID, blood clot risk is higher

Increased Gibbs energy of binding indicates greater infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.75

Lancaster University to be part of building malaria modeling capacity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Flow chemistry, AI, and NMR: A next-gen approach to scalable API production

Digital pathology and the PathoVerse: A conversation with Dr. Singh

Bioprocess Efficiency with Cell Density Monitoring

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