The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employed a technology that had never before been used in FDA-approved vaccines. Both vaccines performed well in clinical trials, and both have been widely credited with reducing disease, but concerns remain over how long immunity induced by the new vaccine technology will last. Now, […]
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Most people anticipate the coming of the Holiday Season. It’s the perfect time to be reunited with our family and spend our precious time building beautiful memories with them. It’s also the perfect time where we get to relax as the daylight savings time ends and we enter the cold Winter season. As our days get shorter and the nights […]
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By the time people with Alzheimer’s disease start exhibiting difficulty remembering and thinking, the disease has been developing in their brains for two decades or more, and their brain tissue already has sustained damage. As the disease progresses, the damage accumulates, and their symptoms worsen. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that high levels […]
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Although spending time outdoors has many benefits including reducing stress, offering options to be physically active, and access to vitamin D, exposing skin to the harmful rays of the sun can raise the risk of skin cancer. Most types of skin cancers result from exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light, which can penetrate to deep levels of the skin, damaging or […]
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Kodi S. Ravichandran, PhD, a world leader in understanding innate immunity, has been named a BJC Investigator as well as director of the Division of Immunobiology in the Department of Pathology & Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. His studies of how dead cells are cleared from the body have shed light on innate immunity — […]
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Sickle cell trait is where a person carries a single mutated hemoglobin A beta subunit allele. Usually, two mutated copies of this gene are needed to cause sickle cell disease (SCD). Typically, people with SCT do not suffer from any symptoms in life, except in limited circumstances where there may be complications. Sickle Cell. Image Credit: SciePro/Shutterstock.com Sickle-Cell Disease (SCD) […]
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From snake print to rainbow to paisley, J.Lo knows how to work a printed legging. Earlier this week, Lopez was spotted heading to lunch in Miami with her manager Benny Medina, wearing a crop top and low-rise joggers. Lopez is currently in the city filming a music video with reggaetón star Rauw Alejandro, which she teased on Instagram with a […]
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There have been numerous studies regarding the impact of social media on the mental health of its users, and most of them have concluded that it is negative. However, a recent survey has put Instagram at the very top of that list, naming it the most damaging social media platform in existence today as far as mental health is concerned. […]
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Gain-of-function research refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a culture. Image Credit: vchal/Shutterstock.com This is performed in a research context to understand the way in which a pathogen adapts to environmental pressures, allowing disease control measures to be better planned, and potential vaccines and therapies […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need to quickly understand how best to fight the virus, but it also presents challenges to initiating studies involving actual patients, such as obtaining consent when patients are critically ill or recruiting patients who may be reluctant to leave their homes. But what if some research could be conducted using synthetic datasets that mimic […]
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