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Innate and adaptive immune responses to BNT162b2 vaccination in mice

Researchers analyzed the innate and adaptive responses to the mRNA-based BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine in mice.

18 Mar 2022

Characteristics of super-spreaders of novel coronaviruses

Researchers conducted a systematic review to evaluate the characteristics of super-spreaders of three novel coronaviruses that caused SARS, MERS, and COVID-19.

18 Mar 2022

Duration of Omicron variant shedding isolated from upper respiratory samples collected from the reported case-patients in Japan

Researchers conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the duration of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant virus shedding

18 Mar 2022

Study explores SARS-CoV-2 spike epitope with potent and broad neutralization

Researchers reported an epitope with high potency and breadth and demonstrated that a therapeutic antibody directed at this site neutralizes all SARS-CoV-2 variants.

18 Mar 2022

SARS-CoV-2 burden and transmission in one rural and one urban community in South Africa

Researchers conducted a prospective household cohort study of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus community burden, viral interaction, and transmission dynamics, called PHIRST-C study in South Africa.

18 Mar 2022

Study shows small airways disease with the presence of air trapping is a long-lasting sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection

Researchers investigated whether small airway diseases are present following acute SARS-CoV-2 infection.

18 Mar 2022

Study shows BCG vaccination reduces SARS-CoV-2-induced lung inflammation in hamsters

Researchers tested the effectiveness of the BCG vaccine in SARS-CoV-2-infected Syrian hamsters.

18 Mar 2022

Developing an autonomous robotic platform to improve the quality of sleep

For World Sleep Day, we speak to Alexander Breuss from the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab about their autonomous robotic sleep platform.

18 Mar 2022

World Sleep Day: Diagnosing chronic respiratory diseases from within the bedroom

For World Sleep Day 2022, News-Medical speaks to Max Sieghold, Co-Founder and CFO of Sleepiz, about their technology and its ability to diagnose sleep apnea/

18 Mar 2022

COVID-19-related hospitalization among infants and young children in the US

Researchers investigated COVID-19-associated hospitalization among children and infants aged zero to four years in the United States during March 2020 and February 2022.

18 Mar 2022

Researchers argue that Omicron's lower severity is a coincidence

Researchers raised concern regarding the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants with unpredictable severity and immune evasion potential due to its ongoing fast-paced antigenic evolution.

18 Mar 2022

New discovery points to potential drug targets for ASXL1-mutant chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

New research from Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine finds that patients with ASXL1-mutant chronic myelomonocytic leukemia - an uncommon type of cancer of the bone marrow - have distinctive epigenetic changes that can activate harmful genes and cause the cancer to grow faster.

18 Mar 2022

Excessive daytime napping among older people may foreshadow dementia

Daytime napping among older people is a normal part of aging – but it may also foreshadow Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.

18 Mar 2022

Study uses social media posts to gauge the emotional impacts of pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has been depressing, demoralizing, and stressful for people around the world. But is there any way to measure exactly how bad it has made everyone feel?

17 Mar 2022

New approach radically increases the success of breast cancer immunotherapy

A study published in the journal Nature Cancer, carried out within the Cancer Programme at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM-Hospital del Mar) by the Cancer Stem Cells and Metastasis Dynamics Laboratory, led by Dr. Toni Celià-Terrassa, and the Laboratory of Molecular Cancer Therapy, coordinated by Dr. Joan Albanell, with the participation of international centers, has discovered an approach that radically increases the success of immunotherapy in one of the most aggressive types of tumors, triple-negative breast cancer.

17 Mar 2022