Natural compounds have become a popular source of interest for drug development due to some successes in their employment against cancer, HIV, malaria, and heart disease. Some natural compounds — flavonoids, garlic, naturally occurring coumarin, and green tea polyphenols — have had higher affinities than some marketed drugs. New findings from a team of Chinese researchers suggest natural compounds — […]
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Community support boosts veteran-owned coffee shop Pale Horse Coffee, a veteran-owned coffee company, expands to a second location after the community rallied to keep them going through the pandemic. A new study brews up some good news for avid coffee drinkers. Consuming three to four cups of joe a day may reduce the risk of liver cancer and other alcohol-related […]
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New research published in the journal Viruses suggests recovering from a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection provides immunity against the B.1.1.7 (or UK) variant. The time when the previous infection took place and the variant involved in prior infection influenced cross-neutralization. Findings also showed individuals with a prior infection benefitted from vaccinations. Neutralizing antibodies from natural infection were boosted, and […]
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Colombia reached 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 this week, becoming just the tenth country in the world to hit the grim milestone. The South American nation of 50 million has been registering a growing number of daily cases since April and over the past seven days it had the world’s third-highest per capita death rate from COVID-19, according to data […]
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Sunday church service in Amish country is more than just belting out hymns, reading Bible passages and returning home an hour later to catch a football game or nap. It’s an all-day affair: A host family welcomes church members—between 20 to 40 families—into their home to worship and have fellowship with one another from morning to night. Church is a […]
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Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, announced that it has closed a $255 million from biotechnology experts to progress Insilico Medicine's current therapeutic programs into human clinical trials, initiate multiple new programs for novel and difficult targets, and further develop its AI and drug discovery capabilities. It also […]
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Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, announced that it has closed a $255 million from biotechnology experts to progress Insilico Medicine's current therapeutic programs into human clinical trials, initiate multiple new programs for novel and difficult targets, and further develop its AI and drug discovery capabilities. It also […]
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The map of Montana Kayla Irish pulls up is peppered with red circles, each cluster providing details behind one of today's timely topics – childhood vaccination. The project, led by Dr. Sophia Newcomer in the University of Montana's Center for Population Health Research, is the first spatial scan analysis to identify hotspots of undervaccinated children across Montana and evaluate whether […]
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Passengers on two flights between Australia and New Zealand have been ordered to immediately isolate and undergo COVID-19 testing after authorities traced a traveller who tested positive in Sydney after visiting Wellington. The case, which adds to a growing coronavirus outbreak in Sydney, prompted New Zealand authorities to suspend quarantine-free travel to and from New South Wales […]
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Scientists at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health have developed a universal vaccine that protected mice not just against COVID-19 but also other coronaviruses and triggered the immune system to fight off a dangerous variant. While no one knows which virus may cause the next outbreak, coronaviruses remain a threat after causing the SARS outbreak […]
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