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A gentler strategy for avoiding childhood dental decay

The combination of a carb-heavy diet and poor oral hygiene can leave children with early childhood caries (ECC), a severe form of dental decay that can have a lasting impact on their oral and overall health.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Breastfeeding mothers do not transfer COVID through milk: study

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) —in collaboration with several other universities—indicates that breastfeeding women with COVID-19 do not transmit the SARS-CoV-2 virus ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Solving a genetic mystery at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, scientists are still working to understand how the new strain of coronavirus evolved, and how it became so much more dangerous than other coronaviruses, which humans have been ...

Medical research

Potential vaccine to prevent deadly strep A infection

Using a novel technology Griffith University Institute for Glycomics researchers are closer to the development of a new vaccine aimed at preventing the deadly Streptococcus A (strep A), which kills more than 500,000 people ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Sequencing of wastewater useful for control of SARS-CoV-2

Viral genome sequencing of wastewater can detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants before they are detected by local clinical sequencing, according to a new study reported in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for ...

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