Ebola vaccine regimens safe, immunogenic in adults and children
WHAT: Two randomized, placebo-controlled trials evaluating three Ebola vaccine administration strategies in adults and children found that all the regimens were safe in both age...
NEWS INDEX
The SARS-CoV-2 RBD antigen could be produced by bio-engineered plants for large-scale use in serology tests and vaccines
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668Credit: Allyson MacLean, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0277668 Article Title: Scalable agroinfiltration-based production of SARS-CoV-2 antigens for use in diagnostic assays and...
U.S. firearm death trends revealed over four decades
A new analysis of firearm death rates from 1981 to 2020 shows that the people most heavily impacted by firearm deaths were Black men and...
Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments
Gorillas and orangutans may be economically rational but also have pre-existing cognitive biases, according to risk-based decision making experiments.Credit: M. Torben Weber, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)...
Surgical risk persists for patients who’ve had COVID
When patients undergo any type of surgery after having had COVID, their odds of significant postoperative problems diminish with elapsed time from COVID diagnosis.Credit: Vanderbilt...
Researchers recreate periodic structure of spine development without biological clocks
One of the most dramatic phases of fetal development occurs as previously unstructured collections of rapidly dividing precursor cells begin forming the embryo’s spine.Credit: Cincinnati...
Researchers investigated the multi-omic landscape of steatosis-to-NASH progression in mice
The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is estimated to be > 25% and will continue to rise. NAFLD comprises a spectrum of...
Confining quarks
A new way to study quarks, one of the building blocks of the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei, is proposed. This has...
Laser controls ultra-fast liquid switch
Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switchCredit: © Adrian Buchmann Laser makes water behave like a high-speed switch All the operations of computers and...
USTC make breakthroughs in atomistic neural network representations for chemical dynamics simulations
A team led by Prof. JIANG Bin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made a series of breakthroughs in chemical dynamics...
Chaos gives the quantum world a temperature
A single particle has no temperature. It has a certain energy or a certain speed - but it is not possible to translate that into...
Scientists demonstrate severe muscle atrophy in postnatal mice lacking two critical myosins
Muscles are made up of proteins. Myosin, a fibrous protein, serves as a molecular motor and converts the chemical energy stored inside our body into...
Increasing forest cover in the Eifel region 11,000 years ago resulted in the local loss of megafauna
Herds of megafauna, such as mammoth and bison, have roamed the prehistoric plains in what is today's Central Europe for several tens of thousands of...
Inhibiting imitation of others can increase understanding of others
Training individuals to inhibit imitation of others increases empathy and allows them to recognize facial expressions in others regardless of their situations.Credit: Masaki O. Abe...
New APHA Press book highlights the inside story of the race to save lives and end a pandemic
SARS-COV-2, or COVID-19 as we now know it, was first officially reported in December 2019. It would soon go on to become humanity’s worst pandemic...
