Recent SARS-CoV-2 variants such as BA.4 and BA.5 developed abilities missing from the first omicron variants that allowed them to overcome humans' innate immunity, according to research from UCL.
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In early 2020, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a highly contagious and pathogenic virus, made its alarming debut and quickly spread worldwide, causing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic ...
Jan 16, 2024
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The term "Disease X" was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats—novel coronaviruses like the one that causes COVID-19, for example—instead of ...
Jan 16, 2024
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The latest studies at Hudson Institute of Medical Research have identified a novel therapy that controls the body's response to the influenza virus, limiting damaging inflammation and promoting recovery from severe infection.
Jan 16, 2024
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Since 2022, a triple epidemic of respiratory viruses—RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2—has been disrupting our daily lives. In addition, the media constantly reminds us of how this is straining emergency departments.
Jan 16, 2024
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Researchers from the Infection Biology Lab at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences (MELIS) at Pompeu Fabra University and the HIV Unit at Hospital del Mar Research Institute have shown that intradermal vaccination ...
Jan 12, 2024
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The number of infections by the tick-borne TBE virus that are not detected by health services is far higher than previously assumed. This has been shown in a new study of Swedish blood donors from Uppsala University and the ...
Jan 12, 2024
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People with long COVID have dysfunctional immune cells that show signs of chronic inflammation and faulty movement into organs, among other unusual activity, according to a new study by scientists at Gladstone Institutes ...
Jan 11, 2024
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When mice lacking key adaptive immune cells were infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus, even though they are not able to clear the virus, they developed no symptoms, revealing that the body's own inflammatory immune response to ...
Jan 11, 2024
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Mayo Clinic researchers have unraveled the molecular mechanisms that affect which cells infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) die and which survive, a discovery heralded as a step toward eliminating all HIV-infected ...
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