Archive: 23/11/2020

Keeping indoor air clean can reduce the chance of spreading coronavirus

The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, mostly from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. But in spite of the obvious risks posed by being inside, according to the Centers ...

Nov 23, 2020

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Astra/Oxford seek coronavirus vaccine approval after 'effective' trials

British drugs group AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford said on Monday they will seek regulatory approval for their coronavirus vaccine after "effective" trials, in the latest potential boost to curbing the global outbreak.

Nov 23, 2020

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Screening may miss one-quarter of child sexual abuse cases

Up to one-quarter of people who suffer child sexual abuse might be passed over for treatment because of current screening procedures, according to UC Riverside psychology researchers.

Nov 23, 2020

Discovering the secrets of viral sequences in COVID-19

Since the beginning of 2020, labs from all around the world have been sequencing the material from positive tests of people affected by COVID-19 and then depositing sequences mostly to three points of collection: GenBank, ...

Nov 23, 2020

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Luxembourg closes bars, restaurants to mid-December

Luxembourg, a tiny country at the crossroads of France, Germany and Belgium, is to close bars, cafés, restaurants, cinemas and gyms until December 15 to curb surging COVID-19 infections.

Nov 23, 2020

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Study involving seven children's hospitals shows COVID-19 typically mild in children

In the largest U.S. study of its kind to date, researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and other PEDSnet sites report that of more than 135,000 pediatric patients tested for SARS-CoV-2 in pediatric health ...

Nov 23, 2020

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Scientists regenerate skin with stem cells to see how DNA defects in kids cause cancer

Physicians and scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center used new stem cell technology to regenerate and study living patient-specific skin in the lab, giving them a precise close up view of how inherited ...

Nov 23, 2020

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Severe infections wreak havoc on mouse blood cell production

Severe infections like malaria cause short and long-term damage to precursor blood cells in mice, but some damage could be reversed, find researchers.

Nov 23, 2020

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Children more willing to punish if the wrongdoer is 'taught a lesson'

Many children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers—and even more so if they believe punishment will teach the transgressor a lesson, a new Yale study published Nov. 23 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour ...

Nov 23, 2020

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Boosting stem cell activity can enhance immunotherapy benefits

Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells that are long-lived, highly active "super immune cells" with strong antitumor activity, according to new research from Georgetown ...

Nov 23, 2020

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