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Study explores the immune response to COVID-19-specific vaccines in Brazilian healthcare workers

An Australian-led study will investigate whether it's possible to predict who remains susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 variants after having COVID-19 or receiving a COVID-19-specific vaccine.

9 Jun 2021

New technology allows rapid analysis and mapping of new potential virus variants

Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge.

9 Jun 2021

NIH-funded study to explore liquid surface coatings for reducing catheter-associated infections

A novel liquid surface coating on human catheters could help reduce protein deposition that leads to urinary tract and bloodstream infections, according to researchers at the University of Maine and University of Notre Dame who are leading a study funded by the National Institutes of Health.

9 Jun 2021

Microgel-coated mesenchymal stromal cells can reverse pulmonary fibrosis

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have shown that even after lung tissue has been damaged, it may be possible to reverse fibrosis and promote tissue repair through treatment with microgel-coated mesenchymal stromal cells.

9 Jun 2021

Senolytics reduce inflammation, illness, and mortality from COVID in older mice

Mayo Clinic researchers and colleagues at the University of Minnesota showed that COVID-19 exacerbates the damaging impact of senescent cells in the body.

9 Jun 2021

Healthy behaviors can prevent dementia, finds study

A new Alzheimer's disease drug will hit the market soon, the first in nearly two decades. But some experts say the evidence for it isn't terribly strong and worry that it may cost a lot.

9 Jun 2021

Researchers map brain activity that flows when people learn a new skill

In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why taking short breaks from practice is a key to learning.

9 Jun 2021

New study has implications for research and advancements in Alzheimer’s and related memory disorders

Scientists have observed for the first time what it looks like in the key memory region of the brain when a mistake is made during a memory trial.

9 Jun 2021

Researchers identify novel gene that controls sleep/wake cycle in mice

That internal nagging feeling that drives you to seek sleep at night and wake in the morning to eat, work, and play, is, it turns out, genetic, and it's not just in people.

9 Jun 2021

Experts in camouflage breaking can accurately detect target in less than a second,

After looking for just one-twentieth of a second, experts in camouflage breaking can accurately detect not only that something is hidden in a scene, but precisely identify the camouflaged target, a skill set that can mean the difference between life and death in warfare and the wild, investigators report.

9 Jun 2021

Cyperus rotundus medicinal plant shows promise for novel COVID-19 therapeutics

Cyperus rotundus is a plant with a history as herbal medicine, containing many chemical substances frequently found to be drug-like in character: flavonoids, terpenoids, and the like. Compounds sourced from the plant have demonstrated some inhibitory activity against HIV by modulation of the CYP3A4 enzyme, and thus in a drug lead discovery effort, Kumar et al. (July 2021) computationally screened these natural compounds against MPRO in a paper recently published to Computers in Biology and Medicine.

9 Jun 2021

Researchers use a unique approach to document the diet of Neanderthals

Neanderthals, extinct cousins of modern humans, occupied Western Eurasia before disappearing and although it was once thought that they travelled as far east as Uzbekistan, in recent years an international research team with the participation of the University of Valencia discovered that they reached two thousand kilometers further East, to the Altai Mountains of Siberia.

9 Jun 2021

Potent antibody responses to BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine among Japanese healthcare workers

In a paper recently uploaded to the preprint server medRxiv* by Nakajima et al. (June 4th, 2021), the antibody responses of over 2,000 Japanese healthcare workers were tracked over a period of several months, with particular regard to serum Immunoglobulin G (IgG) against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

8 Jun 2021

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Study explores the immune response to COVID-19-specific vaccines in Brazilian healthcare workers

New technology allows rapid analysis and mapping of new potential virus variants

NIH-funded study to explore liquid surface coatings for reducing catheter-associated infections

Microgel-coated mesenchymal stromal cells can reverse pulmonary fibrosis

Senolytics reduce inflammation, illness, and mortality from COVID in older mice

Healthy behaviors can prevent dementia, finds study

Researchers map brain activity that flows when people learn a new skill

New study has implications for research and advancements in Alzheimer’s and related memory disorders

Researchers identify novel gene that controls sleep/wake cycle in mice

Experts in camouflage breaking can accurately detect target in less than a second,

Cyperus rotundus medicinal plant shows promise for novel COVID-19 therapeutics

Researchers use a unique approach to document the diet of Neanderthals

Potent antibody responses to BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine among Japanese healthcare workers

SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.345 variant carrying E484K mutation detected in New York

Sleep characteristics associated with cannabis use and binge drinking in teens, young adults

Study highlights cigarette smoking and risk perceptions during the COVID-19 pandemic

Research reveals a possible new approach to prevent death among elderly COVID-19 patients

Weak brain signals may be an early warning sign of age-related neurodegenerative diseases

Men with sensory loss more likely to be physically inactive and obese than women

Vascular preservation therapy eliminates the varicose vein problem

How real-time off-gas analysis improves fermentation process control

Advancing Drug Safety Assessment With AI, Predictive Modeling, and Human-Relevant Data

AI-powered analytics and experimental validation

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