Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For 60 years, doctors and scientists searched for a vaccine against a common virus that, while sometimes deadly, is little known to the public. The hunt…
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WHO declares COVID global emergency over
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than three years after the coronavirus began ravaging the planet, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Friday that the pandemic is no longer a public…
Study identifies features of Long COVID neurological symptoms
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Twelve people with persistent neurological symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection were intensely studied at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and were found to have differences in…
WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?
A girl reacts as she receives a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. Children above the age of 12 are now receiving…
Cellular ‘cruise control’ system safeguards RNA levels in Rett syndrome nerve cells
Cis-acting elements in the 3ʹUTR are highly associated with half-life changes. a Random forest classifier for prediction of mRNA sequence features relevant for half-life fold-change in human NEURTT and in…
Clouds carry drug-resistant bacteria across distances: study
Atmospheric monitoring could help pinpoint the sources of drug-resistant bacteria found in clouds, researchers said. For a team of Canadian and French researchers, dark clouds on the horizon are potentially…
Mortality high for patients with concurrent TB, COVID-19
Patients with concurrent tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 have a high risk for death, according to a study published online April 26 in PLOS Global Public Health. Alice V. Easton, Ph.D.,…
What to know about tick, Lyme season following a mild winter
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a blacklegged tick, which is also known as a deer tick. Ticks will be more…
Study finds inhaling ethanol can disable influenza A in mice
The study found that mice treated with ethanol vapor are protected from lethal respiratory infections caused by the influenza A virus. Credit: Dr. Miho Tamai and Prof. Hiroki Ishikawa (OIST)…
