Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...

Why do some people get severe COVID-19? The nose may know

People who develop severe COVID-19 have markedly blunted antiviral responses in the nasopharynxCredit: BioRxiv Feb 20, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.02.20.431155 The body's ...

UMass Amherst grad student awarded fellowship for food allergy research

USDA program focuses on developing next generation of food scientistsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst food science Ph.D. candidate ...

New insights into immune responses to malaria

Credit: WEHI, Australia Advanced technologies have been used to solve a long-standing mystery about why some people develop serious illness ...

Less-sensitive COVID-19 tests may still achieve optimal results if enough people tested

July 22, 2021

Analysis suggests same epidemiological outcomes possible with rapid-antigen versus RT-PCR testsCredit: Philip Cherian, Sandeep Krishna and Gautam Menon, 2021, PLOS ...

Pathogens get comfy in designer goo

July 22, 2021

Rice, Baylor labs use custom hydrogels to mimic insides of intestines, study infectious bacteriaCredit: Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON ...

Long COVID and severe COVID-19 infections associated with Epstein-Barr virus reactivation

Credit: Jeffrey E. Gold, Ramazan A. Okyay, Warren E. Licht, and David J. Hurley Two recently published studies available on ...

Traditional Japanese food may hold building blocks of COVID-19 treatments

Credit: Part of Figure is adopted from Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Volume 570, 17 September 2021, Pages 21-25. © ...

Novel method predicts if COVID-19 clinical trials will fail or succeed

Researchers first to model COVID-19 completion vs. cessation study using machine learningCredit: Florida Atlantic University/College of Engineering and Computer Science ...

Which students are at most risk of mental health problems during COVID-19 lockdowns?

Credit: JCPP Advances A new study published in JCPP Advances has compared the wellbeing of UK students who remained at ...

Virginia Tech’s COVID-19 testing demonstrates power, versatility of academic labs

Credit: Clayton Metz/Virginia Tech In the early days of the pandemic, scientists at Virginia Tech created a COVID-19 testing laboratory ...

Public trust in CDC, FDA, and Fauci holds steady, survey shows

But heavy users of conservative media have less confidence and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theoriesCredit: Annenberg Public ...

Take your best shot: Which SARS-CoV-2 vaccine should I get, if any?

University of Cincinnati physician-researcher uses computerized decision model to provide evidence that being vaccinated is better than notCredit: Colleen Kelley/University ...

WVU-led team, through NIH grant, ramps up COVID-19 testing in rural West Virginia

For the past seven months, the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute has helped add to COVID-19 testing throughout ...

SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation L452R evades human immune response and enhances infectivity

Credit: Dr. Chihiro Motozono An international team of researchers led by Kumamoto and Tokyo Universities (Japan) have shown that the ...

No horsing around: super-fast Hendra test developed

Credit: The University of Queensland University of Queensland vets are diagnosing the deadly Hendra virus in horses faster than ever, ...

USC study shows male-female differences in immune cell function

Credit: Ryan Lu A new USC study of a common, yet poorly understood type of white blood cell reveals the ...

Of lives and life years: 1918 influenza vs COVID-19

Next time, vaccination may be too little, too lateCredit: CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases, January 2006 From the onset of the ...

In vitro Zoo helps in understanding SARS-CoV-2

Credit: © IFIK / UniBE Since the beginning of the pandemic, several reports have indicated that SARS-CoV-2 spillover events have ...

CHOP researchers establish novel approach for developing new antibiotics