(n this eBook, sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific, we examine the rising role of genetics in medical diagnostics, including polymerase chain reaction (PCR), genomic sequencing, and...
President Joe Biden on Feb. 2 announced plans to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years, part...
Aside from vaccines, the advent of several effective COVID-19 antiviral therapies, including Pfizer’s Paxlovid, provides hope for ending the pandemic. Details about the U.S. government’s contract...
Like other viruses, SARS-CoV-2 uses countermeasures to overcome human defenses—countermeasures that can be negated with the help of combination antiviral drugs The post Beating COVID-19 Means...
Some cancers are actually caused by viruses that linger for long periods in the body, or cause physical damage that later turns cancerous.
A medical genomics professor reflects on how lab simulations offer some advantages for student learning, but developing the muscle memory of performing hands-on lab work is...
The FDA is requiring Moderna to conduct postmarketing studies to further assess the risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with Spikevax. The agency acted after...
The new BA.2 subvariant of Omicron is around 50% more transmissible than the original BA.1 strain, and there The post Omicron BA.2 variant more transmissible, say...
One of the consequences of globalization is the inadvertent spread of invasive plant and animal species. Land flatworms have invaded the entire world, principally via the...
Pfizer has called time on its alliance with Ionis for cholesterol-lowering therapy vupanorsen, after a review of phase The post Pfizer sees no way forward for...
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 31, 2022) – The search to better understand the tremendous range of responses to infection with the COVID-19 virus — from symptom free to...
Shares of Taysha Gene Therapies were down more than 10 percent after a patient's death marred positive interim data for the company’s experimental gene therapy treatment for Sandhoff...
Formulations include tablets, capsules, semisolid preparations, sustained-release products, and—as this image suggests—injectables. Traditionally, formulation development intensified when early-phase trials were succeeded by late-phase trials. Recently,..
2020 was devastating. It was also a year of firsts. Fueled by decades of research and widespread global cooperation, the first mRNA-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 were...
Increase in the levels of NETs—neutrophil extracellular traps, web like structures made of DNA and histones that trap pathogens—have been linked to autoimmune diseases. In a...
Scientists have developed a broadly applicable, multiplexable, and scalable platform for detecting interactions of a range of label-free molecules at the single-molecule scale, in real-time, using...
Link to full release with images: Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Link to full release with images: https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/01/24/harmony-covid19/ FROM: James Urton University of Washington 206-543-2580 jurton@uw.edu ...
A third booster dose of a COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech or Johnson & Johnson increases antibody levels significantly in those who have previously received...
DNA and mRNA vaccines produce a different kind of immune response than traditional vaccines, allowing researchers to tackle some previously unsolvable problems in medicine.
With healthcare systems around the world labouring under the strain of dealing with the Omicron wave of COVID-19 The post Should we be worried about Omicron...
People are buzzing with questions about the omicron variant and whether it could help usher in herd immunity. A team of virologists deciphers the latest findings.
Sewage Surveillance Reveals Omicron Arrived In US Even Earlier Than Believed (And Is Disappearing Fast) Shortly after the start of the COVID pandemic, scientists at Yale...
New Emails Expose Fauci's Role In Shaping Highly Influential Paper That Established COVID "Natural Origin" Narrative Authored by Jeff Carlson and Hans Mahncke via The Epoch...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and White House chief medical advisor, said they expect the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Belgium’s UCB is acquiring California-based Zogenix, a company focused on rare diseases, in a deal valued up to €1.7 billion ($1.9 billion).
Scripps Research scientists devised an approach to help shortcut a key step in modern vaccine development. The researchers married data from high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy to next-gen...
Latest numbers show antimicrobial resistant infections contributed to 4.95 millions deaths globally in 2019.
When used in children, rapid antigen tests for detecting the coronavirus do not meet accuracy criteria set by the World Health Organization and U.S. and UK...
Pfizer released data from several studies showing that nirmatrelvir, the active main protease inhibitor of the company's antiviral combination therapy Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir), is effective against the...
A new study led by researchers at UCLA Health finds no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through breastmilk. The authors found that while a small proportion of...