Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Immune system early responder can combat COVID-19

A simple RNA molecule jumpstarts the immune system's "first responders" to viral infection and can even eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 virus in mice with chronic cases of COVID-19, a new Yale School of Medicine study finds.

Medications

Patent granted for drug candidate intended for cancer treatment

A potential new drug candidate developed by researchers at the University of Oulu, Finland, has been granted a patent in the United States. The drug is a small molecular chemical compound that is especially suited for cancer ...

Vaccination

Moderna has no plans to share its COVID-19 vaccine recipe

Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company's chairman said Monday.

Vaccination

Why aren't COVID vaccines getting to people globally?

(HealthDay)—The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 has highlighted a fear shared by infectious disease experts worldwide: That increasingly dangerous mutations will continue to crop up until most people around ...

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