Advantages of intranasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2
Intranasal vaccination is needle-free and elicits immunity at the site of infection, the respiratory tractCredit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - There ...
Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases
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
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
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 ...
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