Levels of neutralizing antibody to prevent omicron infection reduced and vaccine efficacy against severe disease predicted to drop says new report.
Dec 17, 2021
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Experts from Imperial are advancing understanding of the omicron variant and how we can protect against it as the UK's booster rollout gathers speed.
Dec 17, 2021
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An international team have mapped how the HTLV-1 virus causes a rare leukemia in some people, providing clues on how to stop it happening.
Dec 15, 2021
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The impact of the pandemic on the African continent has been varied due to the fact that African countries are not on equal footing. For example, the lowest income countries may have among the highest burden of infectious ...
Dec 15, 2021
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People from lower-income areas or from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds were less likely to access non-COVID-related hospital care during the pandemic.
Dec 6, 2021
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A special form of four-stranded DNA, recently seen in human cells, has been found to interact with a gene that causes Cockayne Syndrome when faulty.
Dec 3, 2021
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New research shows that the first SARS-CoV-2 spike protein a person encounters, be it by vaccination or infection, shapes their subsequent immune response against current and future variants. That is, it imparts different ...
Dec 2, 2021
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There are reasons to be optimistic about the possibility of creating simple tests to determine if someone has long COVID, an expert has said.
Nov 29, 2021
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What is the new variant, how is it different, and how concerned should we be?
Nov 29, 2021
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Early-stage research has found 10 metabolites associated with bile duct cancer which might one day help create a urine test to identify the cancer.
Nov 16, 2021
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