The United States has had about 140 million COVID infections since the start of the pandemic, new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. That number is far higher than the 74.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases nationwide as of Jan. 31. The new findings are from the CDC’s national antibody seroprevalence survey of blood tests for […]

Katherine (Katy) Spink has become a member of Single Use Support’s Board of Directors. Her many years of expertise in cell & gene therapy consulting will enrich the companies’ focus on innovating solutions for advanced therapies. Image Credit: Single Use Support GmbH As a graduated cancer biologist at Stanford University, Katherine has put into practice her knowledge of advanced medicine […]

Researchers from Skoltech, two Russian Academy of Sciences institutes, and U.S. biotech companies VirIntel and Argentys Informatics have investigated the effect of coronavirus immunization with three popular vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer, and the Russian Sputnik V. The team found that complete vaccination—that is, getting both shots—on average resulted in a similar and sufficiently high immune response regardless of which of the […]

The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) released a summary of their updated guideline for the Perioperative Management of Antirheumatic Medication in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases Undergoing Elective Total Hip or Total Knee Arthroplasty. The guideline, updated from the organizations’ 2017 joint guideline on the same topic, includes recommendations for people […]

Doing less exercise could deactivate a vital protein in the body, causing further inactivity and making exercise more difficult, new research suggests. University of Leeds scientists have discovered that deactivating the Piezo1 protein, a blood flow sensor, reduces the density of capillaries carrying blood to the muscles. This restricted blood flow means activity becomes more difficult and can lead to […]

For years, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (U of U) have honed a process of developing breast cancer models using tumors donated by breast cancer patients, which they then implant into mice as a way to study the tumor’s behavior. Now, the research team reports a new, more efficient way to grow these tumors. In […]

High cholesterol: Nutritionist reveals top prevention tips We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Cholesterol is not intrinsically bad. In fact, you need a healthy amount of […]

A team of researchers from the University of Tsukuba in Japan and Peking University School of Life Sciences, in China, has found an association between the production of dopamine in the basolateral amygdala and the initiation of REM sleep. In their paper published in the journal Science, the researchers describe their use of optogenetic manipulation in mice to better understand […]

We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Some 95 percent of staff have witnessed increased distress across primary and secondary school pupils. The disturbing trend includes 72 […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers conducted a meta-analysis to determine the bacterial coinfection and antibiotic usage prevalence in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Given the similar clinical presentation of COVID-19 and pneumonia and previously reported prevalence of bacterial infections during earlier viral pandemics, bacterial coinfections due to S. pneumonia, S. aureus, H. influenza, etc., […]