Pitt, WashU awarded $10.7 Million for Alzheimer’s disease genetic research
Credit: University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 5, 2021 - Despite decades of research and investment, the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's ...
Tag: Epidemiology
UNC Charlotte researchers analyzed the host origins of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses
Credit: Denis Jacob Machado Coronavirus (CoVs) infection in animals and humans is not new. The earliest papers in the scientific ...
Surfaces can be designed with antiviral properties to mitigate COVID-19
An optimally designed surface can speed the decay of a viral loadCredit: S. Chatterjee, J.S. Murallidharan, A. Agrawal, and R. ...
Tackling the persistent and sometimes controversial questions about COVID-19
Professor Winfried Just creates critical discussions around COVID in new bookCredit: World Scientific Ohio University mathematics professor Winfried Just's new ...
Young people and adolescents know too little about pathogens such as COVID-19
Which are reciprocally transmitted from animals to humansCredit: Zucca P et al. The EU-funded BIO-CRIME project - with support from ...
Harvard University licenses its nasal swab collection technology to Rhinostics
The combined technologies could reduce labor and time required for COVID-19 diagnostic testing 10-fold, and facilitate future diagnostic testing of ...
Vaccines bring us closer
Eurosurveillance issue marks European Immunization Week 2021Credit: Eurosurveillance, WHO Effectively and safely protecting against disease--this is what makes vaccines a ...
Why are there superspreaders?
Scientists are analyzing the development and bursting of infectious aerosols in tissue cultivationsCredit: Dr. Patricia Pfeiffer, Dr. Fabian Reuter/ Uni ...
The new study of emerging materials helping in detection of COVID-19
International group of scientists conducted research on the electrochemical biosensorsCredit: UrFU The SARS-CoV-2 virus is still causing a dramatic loss ...
More than 25% of infants not getting common childhood vaccinations, study finds
Researchers identify troubling disparities along race, income, education linesCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications More than a quarter of American ...
Benefits of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine outweigh its risks
Pausing AstraZeneca vaccinations because of suspected links to deadly blood clots could allow COVID-19 to continue to spread, cause more ...
Geographies of death: Study maps COVID-19 health disparities in Greater Santiago
Three times higher COVID-19 mortality in low-income areasCredit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- People up to age ...
New rapid COVID-19 test the result of university-industry partnership
Innovative platform pairs mass spectrometry with machine learningCredit: UC Davis Health A partnership between UC Davis and Maurice J. Gallagher, ...
AGS honors Dr. Megan Huisingh-Scheetz with Arti Hurria Memorial Award
Credit: Megan Huisingh-Scheetz New York (April 26, 2021)--The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the AGS Health in Aging Foundation today ...
COVID-19 vaccine development built on >$17 billion in NIH funding for vaccine technologies
Broad foundation of NIH-funded research for enabling technologies prior to pandemic provided a tool kit for rapid development of COVID ...
Individuals in lower-income US counties or high support for former President Trump continue to be less likely to socially distance
A new nearly yearlong study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that lower-income and Republican-leaning communities are less ...
COVID-19 peaks reflect time-dependent social activity, not herd immunity
Scientists developed a model showing that a fragile, temporary state of immunity emerged during the early epidemic but got destroyed ...
SARS-CoV-2: Infection induces antibodies capable of killing infected cells
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces antibodies capable of killing infected cells regardless of disease severityCredit: © Virus & Immunity Unit, Institut Pasteur ...
Preventing evictions remains critical to controlling COVID-19, study finds
Penn researchers simulated the epidemic's trajectory, finding that even a modest increase in evictions could lead to thousands of excess ...
All-in-one test for COVID-19 surveillance
Credit: © 2021 KAUST; Ivan Gromicho A new type of COVID-19 testing strategy could help streamline the process of identifying ...
