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Study Shows COVID Vaccine Booster Increases Antibody Responses, Is Protective in Rhesus Macaques

October 22, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — A booster dose of the mRNA-1273 COVID-19 vaccine given to rhesus macaques about six months after their primary vaccine series significantly increased levels of neutralizing antibodies...

New Study Finds No Risk of Pregnancy Loss From COVID-19 Vaccination

October 22, 2021
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Ottawa, ON, Canada — A new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine has found no correlation between COVID-19 vaccinations and risk of first-trimester miscarriages, providing further...

BBQ Lighter, Combined With Microneedles, Sparks Breakthrough in COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

October 21, 2021
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Atlanta, GA — Future vaccine delivery may rely on everyday items like BBQ lighters and microneedles, thanks to the ingenuity of a team of Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University researchers. The...

Christian Nationalism, Vaccine Hesitancy and Science Skeptics: Researchers Delve Into the Sociology of COVID-19

October 20, 2021
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Morgantown, WV — Christian nationalists are less likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine while political conservatives express high skepticism toward the coronavirus in general, two new studies published...

COVID-19 Vaccination Strategies: When Is One Dose Better Than Two?

October 19, 2021
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Washington, DC — In many parts of the world, the supply of COVID-19 vaccines continues to lag behind the demand. While most vaccines are designed as a two-dose regimen, some countries, like Canada,...

New COVID-19-Discovery Could Predict Patient Death or Hospitalization

October 19, 2021
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Copenhagen, Denmark — As parts of the Western world is slowly returning to normal, many countries in the low- and middle-income countries are still fighting and fearing new outbreaks of COVID-19. And...

COVID’s Crushing Impact on Public Health

October 15, 2021
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Newark, DE — The cruel impact of COVID-19, the virus that emerged in late 2019 and has claimed 5 million lives to date, is chronicled in daily headlines. It has robbed us of loved ones, jobs, plans...

New Tool Predicts Changes that may Make COVID Variants more Infectious

October 4, 2021
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University Park, PA — As SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, new variants are expected to arise that may have an increased ability to infect their hosts and evade the hosts’ immune systems. The first...

Watching SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Animal Models in Real Time

September 30, 2021
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San Antonio, TX — A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal tissues, providing a real-time way to track the...

Researchers Explain How Nanomaterial Aids Antibody Response, Study It as Antibody Factory

September 28, 2021
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Ames, IA — The researchers’ original task was to figure out how certain polymer nanomaterials provided for a low-inflammatory immune response and yet were able to boost antibody production as part...

Microneedle Patch Delivers COVID-19 DNA Vaccine; Doesn’t Require Cold Storage

September 28, 2021
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Beijing, China — More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven’t been able to get vaccines, partly because these...

DNA Sensor Quickly Determines Whether Viruses are Infectious

September 27, 2021
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Champaign, IL — A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it’s infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread. Researchers at the University of...

When Organoids Meet Coronaviruses

September 23, 2021
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Utrecht, Netherlands — Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers in collaboration with the group of Bart Haagmans (Erasmus MC) established an organoid biobank to search for the genes that are essential...

A ‘Lab-free, Lab-Quality’ Testing of RNA Viruses to Prepare for Next Pandemic

September 10, 2021
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Nomi, Japan — With the rapid emergence of new infectious virus strains that result in rapid outbreaks (such as 4 variants of concern (VOCs) of SARS-CoV-2 from Alpha to Delta and 5 variants of interest...

AI Helps to Spot Single Diseased Cells

September 3, 2021
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Munich, Germany — The Human Cell Atlas is the world’s largest, growing single-cell reference atlas. It contains references of millions of cells across tissues, organs and developmental stages. These...

Scientists Develop Faster COVID-19 Test

August 23, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new sample preparation method to detect SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method bypasses extraction...

Drugs Used to Treat Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease may Weaken Immune Response Induced by COVID-19

August 19, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil have found that some types of medication used to treat patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases...

Understanding Lung Damage in Patients with COVID-19

August 17, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Researchers from around the globe have spent the past 18 months trying to understand COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Capable of causing acute lung failure,...

Biosensor Permits Ultra-Fast and Cheap Detection of SARS-CoV-2

August 12, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have stimulated innovation on several fronts. One is the development of low-cost methods of clinical diagnosis. Genosensors are a case...

New Study Points to Toxic Potential of Hydroxychloroquine in Mammalian Cells

August 4, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — During the height of the pandemic, as scientists worldwide raced to develop a vaccine, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) emerged as a flashpoint of controversy. Pitting proponents of using...

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