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New method could help determine the most appropriate treatment for HIV patientsNovember 30, 2020 at 11:56 PM A team co-led by a scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a method to study how HIV mutates to escape the immune system in multiple individuals, which could inform HIV vaccine design.Tags: Health, University of California Riverside 31 people like this. Like Nucleic acid-hydrolyzing scFv 3D8 exhibits potent antiviral effects on SARS-CoV-2November 30, 2020 at 11:37 PM 3D8, a 27-kDa recombinant antibody fragment, was found in autoimmune-prone Murphy Roths Large mice. The single-chain variable fragment (scFv) has the nucleic acid hydrolyzing activity and is shown to degrade DNA or mRNA of viruses in infected cells.Tags: Health 8 people like this. Like Researchers receive three-year grant to develop treatment for traumatic brain injuryNovember 30, 2020 at 11:36 PM Researchers at Montclair State University and Kessler Foundation received a three-year $456,710 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research to develop treatment interventions for the deficits in long-term memory that hinder recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI).Tags: Health, Montclair State University, Kessler Foundation, New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research 23 people like this. Like New cyber-biological attack can trick biologists into generating dangerous toxinsNovember 30, 2020 at 11:32 PM An end-to-end cyber-biological attack, in which unwitting biologists may be tricked into generating dangerous toxins in their labs, has been discovered by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev cyber-researchers.Tags: Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev 38 people like this. Like Australian politics live: WA opens borders to Victoria and NSW; US national security council tweets at China over wine tariffsNovember 30, 2020 at 11:29 PM New WA border rules not requiring quarantine to start on 8 December; Paul Fletcher complains to ABC chair about Four Corners program; MPs hit back at China over provocative tweet. Follow latest updates Poll: three-quarters of Australians back target of net zero by 2030China rejects Australian PM’s call to apologise for ‘repugnant’ tweet Follow our global coronavirus live blogAustralia’s coronavirus restrictions explained: state by state 4.29am GMT Parliament continues until next Thursday and...Tags: Health, Abc, China, US, Australia news, Asia Pacific, Coalition, Australian politics, Queensland, New South Wales, Sydney, Welfare, Australian military, Victoria, Labor party, Liberal party 47 people like this. Like Fibromyalgia during COVID-19, anxiety and painNovember 30, 2020 at 10:19 PM Early research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic found persistent related anxiety in the general population. Researchers in the UK hypothesized that this anxiety would be associated with increased pain in chronic pain patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia (FM).Tags: Health, UK 19 people like this. Like Marinomed plans a clinical trial with Carragelose nasal spray as COVID-19 prophylaxisNovember 30, 2020 at 9:50 PM Marinomed Biotech AG, a globally operating biopharmaceutical company, is pleased to announce today that the Swansea University Medical School plans a clinical trial with Iota-/kappa-carrageenan nasal spray as a COVID-19 Prophylaxis for Healthcare Professionals (ICE-COVID).Tags: Health, Swansea University Medical School, Marinomed Biotech AG, Marinomed 36 people like this. Like Good cholesterol helps SARS-CoV-2 enter cellsNovember 30, 2020 at 9:50 PM The researchers explained that the SARS-CoV-2 can infect human host cells after its viral spike protein (SARS-2-S) binds to a cellular surface receptor called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).Tags: Health 45 people like this. Like Politicians and public officials fail to harness young people’s perspectives on COVID-19 recoveryNovember 30, 2020 at 9:43 PM Decision-makers are failing to harness young people's potential to help shape pandemic responses, according to a major study that features the views of young people from around the world.Tags: Health 28 people like this. Like Low-income black households disproportionately affected by Covid-19 shutdownsNovember 30, 2020 at 9:34 PM The alarming rate at which Covid-19 has killed Black Americans has highlighted the deeply embedded racial disparities in the U.S. health care system.Tags: Health 28 people like this. Like Financial symptoms could be used as early predictors of dementiaNovember 30, 2020 at 9:28 PM A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors found that Medicare beneficiaries who go on to be diagnosed with dementia are more likely to miss payments on bills as early as six years before a clinical diagnosis.Tags: Health, Medicare, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Federal Reserve Board of Governors 38 people like this. Like Clonal hematopoiesis linked to severe COVID-19November 30, 2020 at 9:23 PM Now, an international team of researchers from the USA, South Korea and Canada has found that clonal hematopoiesis is tied to the risk of severe COVID-19.Tags: Health, Canada, USA South Korea 23 people like this. Like Infection control, widespread testing help reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools, study findsNovember 30, 2020 at 9:09 PM Now, a team of researchers at the New York University Grossman School of Medicine explored which school policies had the most significant impact on reducing the risk of in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission.Tags: Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine 50 people like this. Like Researchers reveal how SARS-CoV-2 reaches the brainNovember 30, 2020 at 9:03 PM Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains of patients with COVID-19, and how the immune system responds to the virus once it does.Tags: Health, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin 3 people like this. Like Chemical compounds in foods can block the function of key SARS-CoV-2 enzymeNovember 30, 2020 at 8:59 PM Chemical compounds in foods or beverages like green tea, muscadine grapes and dark chocolate can bind to and block the function of a particular enzyme, or protease, in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to a new study by plant biologists at North Carolina State University.Tags: Health 17 people like this. Like Researchers find way for customized programming of human stem cellsNovember 30, 2020 at 8:51 PM Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) have the potential to convert into a wide variety of cell types and tissues for drug testing and cell replacement therapies. However, the "recipes" for this conversion are often complicated and difficult to implement.Tags: Health 32 people like this. Like Slow moving bacteria colonies can expand quicker than their fast moving counterpartsNovember 30, 2020 at 8:46 PM An international collaboration between researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Oxford University, and University of Sheffield has revealed that colonies of slow moving bacteria can expand significantly quicker than their fast moving counterparts.Tags: Health, University Of Sheffield 2 people like this. Like Memory B cells persist in recovered COVID-19 patientsNovember 30, 2020 at 8:43 PM A team of scientists from the University of Washington, USA, and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, has comprehensively studied the antibody-mediated immune responses in patients diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).Tags: Health, University of Washington USA, Karolinska Institute Sweden 20 people like this. Like Wyss Institute’s eRapid technology licensed to The iQ Group GlobalNovember 30, 2020 at 8:41 PM Today, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced that its eRapid technology has been licensed to The iQ Group Global for COVID-19 diagnostic applications.Tags: Health, Harvard University, Wyss Institute 10 people like this. Like Researchers reveal link between gut bacteria and vitamin D levelsNovember 30, 2020 at 8:27 PM Our gut microbiomes -- the many bacteria, viruses and other microbes living in our digestive tracts -- play important roles in our health and risk for disease in ways that are only beginning to be recognized.Tags: Health 6 people like this. Like New effort to increase COVID-19 testing in Louisiana's Black communitiesNovember 30, 2020 at 8:23 PM Pennington Biomedical Research Center is leading a federally funded effort to increase COVID-19 testing in Louisiana's Black communities, which have been hit hard by the virus.Tags: Health, Louisiana, Pennington Biomedical Research Center 34 people like this. Like SARS-CoV-2 immunity in the U.S. remains lowNovember 30, 2020 at 8:21 PM Seroprevalence studies indicate that less than 10% of people in the U. S. have detectable antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) from July to September 2020.Tags: Health 16 people like this. Like Study: Plant-based diet boosts metabolismNovember 30, 2020 at 8:20 PM A plant-based diet boosts after-meal burn, leads to weight loss, and improves cardiometabolic risk factors in overweight individuals, according to a new randomized control trial published in JAMA Network Open by researchers with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.Tags: Health 33 people like this. Like Experimental vaccine protects cynomolgus macaques against Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virusNovember 30, 2020 at 8:16 PM An experimental vaccine developed in Europe to prevent infection by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) has protected cynomolgus macaques in a new collaborative study from National Institutes of Health scientists.Tags: Health, Europe, Congo, National Institutes of Health, Crimean Congo 31 people like this. Like Australian politics live: WA lifts quarantine requirements for visitors from Victoria and NSWNovember 30, 2020 at 8:15 PM New WA border rules to start on 8 December; Paul Fletcher complains to ABC chair about Four Corners program; MPs hit back at China over provocative tweet. Follow latest updatesPoll: three-quarters of Australians back target of net zero by 2030China rejects Australian PM’s call to apologise for ‘repugnant’ tweet Follow our global coronavirus live blogAustralia’s coronavirus restrictions explained: state by state 1.10am GMT Labor caucus has finished – and of most interest was a debate on a Rex...Tags: Health, Labor, Abc, China, Australia news, Asia Pacific, Coalition, Australian politics, Queensland, New South Wales, Sydney, Welfare, Australian military, Victoria, Labor party, Liberal party 39 people like this. Like HIV and TB laboratory systems used to scale up COVID-19 testing in AfricaNovember 30, 2020 at 8:05 PM Many countries in resource-limited settings have high HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and/or sexually transmitted infection (STI) burdens.Tags: Health, Africa 25 people like this. Like Validated biomarkers can reveal individual’s risk of developing Alzheimer’sNovember 30, 2020 at 7:58 PM A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that validated biomarkers can reveal an individual's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.Tags: Health, Sweden, Lund University 40 people like this. Like A mutant SARS-CoV-2 subspecies from minks may evade antibody detectionNovember 30, 2020 at 7:58 PM In a recent research letter published on the bioRxiv preprint server, scientists from Japan discovered that the mutation of spike glycoprotein in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) derived from farmed minks can also be found in the group of individuals with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and subsequently evade detection by our immune system.Tags: Health, Japan 35 people like this. Like Review highlights huge inconsistencies in palliative care provision across the globeNovember 30, 2020 at 7:53 PM A major review of palliative care services around the world has highlighted huge inconsistencies in provision, with patients in some countries receiving a fraction of the support provided elsewhere.Tags: Health 48 people like this. Like Rutgers leading a clinical trial assessing combination treatment for coronavirusNovember 30, 2020 at 7:49 PM Rutgers is leading a clinical trial assessing the combination of nitazoxanide, ribavirin and hydroxychloroquine to treat people 21 or older who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 and are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic.Tags: Health, Rutgers 31 people like this. Like |
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