School nurses key to safe school reopening
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2020) - Sudden school closures in the United States were undertaken to reduce COVID-19 ...
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First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS ...
LJI scientists investigate a powerful protein behind antibody development
Credit: Jinyong Choi, La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA, CA--Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have ...
Viruses can steal our genetic code to create new human-virus genes
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Like a scene out of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," a virus infects a host ...
New discovery paves way for next generation malaria vaccine
Researchers develop genetically attenuated parasite (GAP) that arrests late in the liver stage of human malariaCredit: Seattle Children's In an ...
Tuberculosis vaccine strengthens immune system
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Nijmegen explains how BCG vaccination reduces susceptibility to infectionsCredit: © University Bonn A ...
Ground-breaking research makes childhood vaccines safe in all temperatures
University of Bath Press ReleaseCredit: University of Bath Vaccines are notoriously difficult to transport to remote or dangerous places, as ...
Chimeron Bio & George Mason NCBID partner on COVID-19 vaccine using ChaESARTM technology
Collaboration will test pre-clinical efficacy and safety of vaccine pipeline including COVID-19 and other coronavirusesCredit: Chimeron Bio PHILADELPHIA,Pa & FAIRFAX, ...
Promising pre-clinical results for USask VIDO-InterVac COVID-19 vaccine
Credit: University of Saskatchewan SASKATOON - A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the University of Saskatchewan's (USask) Vaccine and Infectious ...
IVI to strengthen COVID-19 surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa with support from Sweden
IVI will leverage its network of infectious disease surveillance sites to conduct epidemiological studies of COVID-19 in Madagascar and Burkina ...
Tip of the iceberg: Existing racial inequalities in death from COVID-19 will soar
Credit: Florida Atlantic University As is the case with most fatal diseases, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is already taking a disproportionate ...
BIDMC-developed vaccines protect against COVID-19 in non-human primates, study finds
Companion study suggests COVID-19 infection protects against re-exposureCredit: Photo Credit Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, Mass. - With nearly ...
Prellis Bio’s Externalized Human Immune System™ rapidly generates 300 SARS-CoV2 antibodies
Company pursues treatment and preventative therapies for COVID-19Credit: Prellis Biologics, Inc. HAYWARD, Calif. May 19th, 2020--Prellis Biologics, Inc. today announced ...
Statistical approach to COVID-19 clinical trials aims to accelerate drug approval process
Credit: By doomu Cambridge, Mass., May 18, 2020 - In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute ...
COVID-19: Lessons to learn about the first 4.0 pandemic
A conjunction of biological and social factorsCredit: Jordi Serra-Cobo (UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA-IRBio) Although the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak was officially presented suddenly ...
Detailed analysis of immune response to SARS-CoV-2 bodes well for COVID-19 vaccine
Study finds robust antiviral T cell response in humans with COVID-19 and detects substantial crossreactivity in unexposed individuals; in a ...
Alberta researchers, Tonix Pharmaceuticals race to develop candidate vaccines for COVID-19
Partnerships like this one can dramatically accelerate efforts to move research from lab to community, says virologist.Credit: Melissa Fabrizio University ...
Molecular signatures can predict the efficacy of malaria vaccines
A new study reveals that it is possible to identify those individuals that will be protected by the vaccine before ...
In victory over polio, hope for the battle against COVID-19
Credit: Sanjay Suchak | UVA Communications For much of the 20th century, summer was considered "polio season," and people were ...
New map reveals distrust in health expertise is winning hearts and minds online
Researchers warn scientists are fighting health misinformation in the wrong placeCredit: Neil Johnson WASHINGTON (May 13, 2020)--Communities on Facebook that ...
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