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Pfizer and BioNTech have officially submitted a request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. “With new cases in children in the U.S. continuing to be at a high level, this submission is an important step in our ongoing effort against #COVID19,” Pfizer tweeted on Thursday (Oct. 7). […]
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The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis a five-year, $12.2 million grant to create a center aimed at advancing research into neurosteroids as treatments for depression and other psychiatric disorders. The new Silvio O. Conte Center for Basic Neuroscience Research will be one of only 15 Conte Centers currently funded […]
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A group of researchers has created nanomachines that detect MMPs (matrix metalloproteinases), a principal enzyme for cancer cells to invade normal tissue, and deliver anticancer drugs according to an announcement in the journal Advanced Materials . As it can target highly invasive cancer cells, it is expected to inhibit cancer metastasis and recurrence. Malignant tumors display characteristics of metastasis, recurrence, […]
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Take a minute to contemplate a sentence: Individually, each letter of each word doesn’t hold much significance. But put them together into words, organize those words into sentences, and then these symbols convey meaning. You may never have seen the specific string of words in a given sentence before, but because you understand the abstract rules of language, augmentin hives […]
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Although there have been many studies into COVID-19, and even studies into the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on pregnant mothers, relatively few studies have looked at what impact maternal COVID-19 infection may have on the developing fetus. A new study by researchers in the School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences at King’s, published today in Nature Immunology, looked at the […]
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Cell fitness has been identified as a way of predicting health outcomes in COVID patients, according to a University of Queensland study. The study investigated a cellular fitness marker, known as hfwe-Lose, lamictal lower sperm count to identify sub-optimal cells in patients who had been hospitalized or died from COVID at the start of the pandemic. UQ Diamantina Institute’s Dr. […]
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South Africa launched a new COVID-19 vaccination drive Friday and will try to give doses to 500,000 people in two days to reinvigorate a flagging campaign that’s coming up against hesitancy and complacency in the continent’s worst-affected country. The campaign will run through Saturday, and is the first time South Africa has offered vaccines on a wide scale to people […]
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The EU’s drug watchdog said Thursday it expected to decide in early October whether to approve boosters of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for over 16s. A decision on further jabs of both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for at-risk people and the elderly is due at the same time, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said. Protection against coronavirus is shown […]
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Training your major muscle groups regularly is hard enough. The last thing you have time to do is train the little guys—your rotator cuffs, your hip stabilizers, and your external obliques—that support your main core muscles. But what if you could target these neglected muscle groups while still blasting major ones like your chest, back, and legs, too? Finish off […]
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Are prematurely aged or overworked stem cells a significant factor in chronic lung disease? Findings of a study just released in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine say this is likely so. The study determined that repeated injury to the epithelial tissue of the airways causes “biological aging” of the stem cells located there. “This premature aging of the tracheobronchial stem cells […]
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