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Analysis of the immune landscape in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

A new study includes an analysis of plasma cytokine levels, peripheral blood immune cell composition, and SARS-CoV-2 specific Igs in COVID-19.

15 Sep 2021

Pew announces support for the 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the six pairs of researchers who will make up its 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators.

15 Sep 2021

Single protein is a key player in two very common forms of dementia, study reveals

Dementia has many faces, and because of the wide range of ways in which it can develop and affect patients, it can be very challenging to treat.

15 Sep 2021

Hospitals use artificial intelligence to predict Covid patients’ oxygen needs

Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge along with 20 other hospitals from across the world and healthcare technology leader, NVIDIA, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict Covid patients' oxygen needs on a global scale.

15 Sep 2021

The Indian second wave: SARS-CoV-2 infection-induced immunity could be ineffective in protecting population

Researchers decided to investigate how effective immunity gained from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection protects a wider community from disease.

15 Sep 2021

SARS-CoV-2 variants show substantial differences in spike structure

To investigate the impact of these mutations, researchers performed cryo-electron microscopy analysis on the variants spike proteins to determine any structural changes.

15 Sep 2021

Natural SARS-CoV-2 infection induces more durable immunity than vaccination study suggests

Scientists from the USA have demonstrated that immunity induced by mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in previously SARS-CoV-2-infected people has the highest robustness and durability with cross-reactivity against different viral variants.

15 Sep 2021

Vaccination of children before school reopening may control COVID-19 pandemic

A team has recently explored the impact of non-pharmaceutical control measures and vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic during school reopening in England.

15 Sep 2021

A sweet pill to swallow: oral nucleoside analog of Remdesivir improved SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis in mice

A new study focused on in vitro antiviral activity in various cell models and in vivo therapeutic efficacy of oral GS-621763 in a mouse model of SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis.

15 Sep 2021

MinoTour: a real-time monitoring platform to analyze SARS-CoV-2 nanopore sequencing

A study published on the bioRxiv* preprint sever focused on ONT sequencers that can rapidly provide data on the SARS-CoV-2 virus sequence.

15 Sep 2021

Drug accumulation alters gut bacterial metabolism and composition

In a research paper recently published in the journal Nature by Klünemann et al. (September 8th, 2021), the interaction of 15 diverse drugs with 25 common strains of gut bacteria is investigated, revealing 70 bacteria-drug interactions that include 29 entirely novel mechanisms not yet reported.

15 Sep 2021

Blocking a specific immune cell could reverse antibiotic-induced breast cancer growth

Leading scientists have identified a possible link between antibiotic use and the speed of breast cancer growth in mice, and identified a type of immune cell that could be targeted to reverse it.

15 Sep 2021

New automated approach to detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with increased growth rates

Researchers in the United States have developed a new automated approach to detecting variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – that have increased growth rates over other lineages.

15 Sep 2021

Study reveals role of globalization and zoonosis in the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants

A recent study aimed to use their own classification of different SARS-CoV-2 lineages that would help monitor their genetic features and geographical origins.

14 Sep 2021

Liver may play a key role in the onset or progression of Alzheimer's disease

Amyloid protein made in the liver can cause neurodegeneration in the brain, according to a new study in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, by John Mamo of Curtin University in Bentley, Australia, and colleagues.

14 Sep 2021

Common eye test could expel tear droplets that may spread viruses, other pathogens

A common eye test could expel tear droplets up to a meter away from the patient, potentially spreading viruses that cause COVID-19 and other pathogens.

14 Sep 2021

MS patients receiving aCD20 treatment mount robust T-cell responses to COVID-19 vaccines

New research shows that Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients undergoing anti-CD20 (aCD20) treatment – which depletes the B cells that contribute to the MS attacks – are able to mount robust T-cell responses to the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, despite having a muted antibody response to the vaccines.

14 Sep 2021

Low dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine generates durable immune response

A new study from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) scientists helps answer the question: how long does immunity against COVID-19 last in vaccinated people?

14 Sep 2021

Blood serum test can identify which breast cancer patients have slow-growing disease

Researchers with the SWOG Cancer Research Network have found that patients with metastatic hormone receptor-positive breast cancer who have low activity levels of the enzyme sTK1 in their blood serum at the start of anti-estrogen treatment live longer and go longer without their disease progressing than patients with high levels.

14 Sep 2021

Severe COVID-19 linked to increase in autoantibodies

Hospitalized COVID-19 patients are substantially more likely to harbor autoantibodies - antibodies directed at their own tissues or at substances their immune cells secrete into the blood - than people without COVID-19, according to a new study.

14 Sep 2021

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Analysis of the immune landscape in mild-to-moderate COVID-19

Pew announces support for the 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators

Single protein is a key player in two very common forms of dementia, study reveals

Hospitals use artificial intelligence to predict Covid patients’ oxygen needs

The Indian second wave: SARS-CoV-2 infection-induced immunity could be ineffective in protecting population

SARS-CoV-2 variants show substantial differences in spike structure

Natural SARS-CoV-2 infection induces more durable immunity than vaccination study suggests

Vaccination of children before school reopening may control COVID-19 pandemic

A sweet pill to swallow: oral nucleoside analog of Remdesivir improved SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis in mice

MinoTour: a real-time monitoring platform to analyze SARS-CoV-2 nanopore sequencing

Drug accumulation alters gut bacterial metabolism and composition

Blocking a specific immune cell could reverse antibiotic-induced breast cancer growth

New automated approach to detecting SARS-CoV-2 variants with increased growth rates

Study reveals role of globalization and zoonosis in the emergence and spread of SARS-CoV-2 variants

Liver may play a key role in the onset or progression of Alzheimer's disease

Common eye test could expel tear droplets that may spread viruses, other pathogens

MS patients receiving aCD20 treatment mount robust T-cell responses to COVID-19 vaccines

Low dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine generates durable immune response

Blood serum test can identify which breast cancer patients have slow-growing disease

Severe COVID-19 linked to increase in autoantibodies

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic care

Automation in cell-based workflows

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