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Hard lessons from a city that tried to privatize public health

If you were growing up in Detroit in the 1970s or '80s, chances are you knew the city's Herman Kiefer public health complex by both sight and reputation.

6 Aug 2021

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine offers decreased protection six months after second dose, suggests Israeli study

A recent study published on the preprint server medRxiv* determines whether the time elapsed since the second dose of the BNT162b2 vaccine is associated with an increased risk of breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection.

6 Aug 2021

SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant associated with more critical and fatal disease than Alpha, suggests Qatar study

A new study traces the degree to which the Beta variant of this virus is associated with severe, critical or fatal disease, using a case-control model.

6 Aug 2021

Study reports on COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events in young Japanese population

A new study from Japan, released as a medRxiv* preprint, describes the adverse effects associated with the vaccine. Such data is crucial in delineating the safety and efficacy of this intervention in various age groups.

6 Aug 2021

Affinity maturation of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies make them more powerful and resistant to escape mutations

A new study in the journal Immunity shows in fascinating detail how antibodies elicited by this virus show affinity maturation, a process occurring by somatic hypermutation (SHM) in the lymphoid germinal centers, to become more specific in their recognition of antigens.

6 Aug 2021

Double vaccinated three times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than unvaccinated, says study

In new research, scientists at Imperial College London report that double vaccinated individuals could be three times less likely than unvaccinated people to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection.

6 Aug 2021

Simplified glycan modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

In a research paper recently uploaded to the preprint server bioRxiv* by Gecht et al. (August 4th, 2021), a new method of representing glycan conformers on static protein structures is explored, named GlycoSHIELD.

6 Aug 2021

Researchers identify genetic markers linked to COVID-19 severity and susceptibility

In collaboration with Northwestern Medicine investigators, an international multi-center study has identified genetic factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity, according to findings published in Nature.

6 Aug 2021

Dialysis patients' response to COVID19 vaccine type

The researchers at Standford University evaluated the humoral vaccination response of 2,099 fully vaccinated patients undergoing dialysis.

5 Aug 2021

Multivalent nanobodies show improved neutralization activity against SARS-CoV-2

A state-of-the-art engineering approach toward improving the neutralizing activity of a cross-reactive nanobody, previously generated against the original SARS virus, showed it can be an attractive and viable option against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The study is published in the journal Advanced Therapeutics.

5 Aug 2021

New method for producing pseudotyped virus particles bearing spike protein of SARS-CoV-2

A new study discusses the development of an improved protocol based on cell lines that can consistently express S proteins.

5 Aug 2021

Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome by the N protein of SARS-CoV-2 to induce hyperinflammation

A new study has revealed the mechanism by which the SARS-CoV-2 N protein activates NLRP3 inflammasomes to induce hyperinflammation.

5 Aug 2021

New longevity metric: Average human lifespan reduced drastically by COVID-19

At its peak, COVID-19 drastically reduced the average human lifespan — by as much as 9 years in one U.S. state — according to a new longevity metric developed at UCLA.

5 Aug 2021

Zoonotic disease surveillance must be integrated into health security intelligence systems, experts say

The surveillance of zoonotic diseases must be integrated into health security intelligence systems, if future pandemics are to be handled effectively, according to global health practitioners writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

5 Aug 2021

COVID vaccines generate antibodies in saliva

Researchers in the United States and Canada have conducted a study showing that the vaccines developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) generate local antibody responses in the salivary gland that are independent of the systemic immune response.

5 Aug 2021

Vaccination may protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection at the eye surface

Researchers in Australia have conducted a study showing that vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induces key antibodies at the eye surface that may help to protect against the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

5 Aug 2021

Scientists urge increased attention to persistent COVID-19 infections in immunocompromised people

In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Medicine, the U.S. Military HIV Research Program and the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina urged increased attention to persistent COVID-19 infections in immunocompromised people.

5 Aug 2021

Coronavirus Disease COVID 19 News and Research

Latest Coronavirus Disease COVID 19 News and Research

Hard lessons from a city that tried to privatize public health

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine offers decreased protection six months after second dose, suggests Israeli study

SARS-CoV-2 Beta variant associated with more critical and fatal disease than Alpha, suggests Qatar study

Study reports on COVID-19 vaccine-related adverse events in young Japanese population

Affinity maturation of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies make them more powerful and resistant to escape mutations

Double vaccinated three times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than unvaccinated, says study

Simplified glycan modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Researchers identify genetic markers linked to COVID-19 severity and susceptibility

Dialysis patients' response to COVID19 vaccine type

Multivalent nanobodies show improved neutralization activity against SARS-CoV-2

New method for producing pseudotyped virus particles bearing spike protein of SARS-CoV-2

Activation of NLRP3 inflammasome by the N protein of SARS-CoV-2 to induce hyperinflammation

New longevity metric: Average human lifespan reduced drastically by COVID-19

Zoonotic disease surveillance must be integrated into health security intelligence systems, experts say

COVID vaccines generate antibodies in saliva

Vaccination may protect against SARS-CoV-2 infection at the eye surface

Scientists urge increased attention to persistent COVID-19 infections in immunocompromised people

Specific and sensitive biomarker in the blood predicts symptomatic COVID-19 infection

Using two different CRISPR enzymes to develop a faster and easier COVID-19 diagnostic test

A correlation study between time-from-vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections

Fluidics in Modern Healthcare & Medical Device Innovation

Scaling 3D biology: Automation, imaging, and the future of high-throughput research

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