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CDC awards $15.88 million to Wayne State University to study viral infection surveillance

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded $15.88 million to the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine to be the epicenter of a national study on viral infections that present in emergency departments across the county.

1 Oct 2021

Research points the way to identifying new precision treatments for cancer

Researchers at University of California San Diego and University of California San Francisco have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of discrete groups of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease.

30 Sep 2021

Study investigates long-COVID symptoms in people recovering from COVID-19 infection

This new study from the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) investigated long-COVID in over 270,000 people recovering from COVID-19 infection, using data from the US-based TriNetX electronic health record network.

30 Sep 2021

Effect of biologic therapy on COVID-19 in children suffering from rheumatic diseases

A new study aimed to determine the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children suffering from rheumatic disease and were receiving bDMARD treatment.

29 Sep 2021

Study finds even individuals with mild COVID-19 suffer from long-COVID

Researchers explored the possible risk factors for the development and persistence of longer post-COVID-19 sequelae.

29 Sep 2021

Seven symptoms can be used to maximize detection of COVID-19

A set of 7 symptoms, considered together, can be used to maximize detection of COVID-19 in the community, according to a new paper published this week in PLOS Medicine by Marc Chadeau-Hyam and Paul Elliott of Imperial College London, UK, and colleagues.

28 Sep 2021

Mass Eye and Ear researcher receives P50 NIH grant to establish new center for neurological voice disorders

Kristina Simonyan, MD, PhD, Dr med, director of laryngology research at Mass Eye and Ear, has been awarded an $11.9 million P50 Clinical Research Center Grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communicable Disorders of the National Institute of Health to form a new multidisciplinary center across four academic medical institutions that will be committed to conducting research on laryngeal dystonia and voice tremor, two debilitating neurological voice disorders.

28 Sep 2021

Scientists identify potential antibody candidate with broad-spectrum neutralizing efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 variants

A team of scientists from China and the USA has recently described the antiviral efficacy of a monoclonal antibody candidate targeting the spike receptor-binding domain (RBD) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Importantly, they have observed that emerging spike mutations could not affect the potency of this antibody. The study is currently available on the bioRxiv* preprint server.

27 Sep 2021

New discovery greatly improves detection of HPV in the bloodstream

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre researchers have made new findings which greatly improve detection of the human papillomavirus (HPV) in the bloodstream and could further hone precision treatment of the illness.

27 Sep 2021

Researchers develop new method for rapidly detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA

DTU-researchers develop a novel method for rapidly detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA that may also be designed to detect other diseases.

27 Sep 2021

Further evidence of safety and efficacy of mRNA-1273 vaccine in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection

A recent study supports the efficacy of the mRNA-1273 vaccine in preventing COVID-19 illness and disease severity.

24 Sep 2021

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

A recent preprint deals with the incidence and importance of long COVID in children.

23 Sep 2021

Hypertonic saline solution shown to inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have shown that a hypertonic saline solution inhibits replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and have elucidated the biochemical mechanism involved.

22 Sep 2021

Research highlights potentially life-saving screening for HR-HPV–driven head and neck cancers

Cancer causing high-risk human papillomaviruses (HR-HPV) are responsible for the rising incidence of HR-HPV–driven head and neck cancers (HNC), particularly oropharyngeal cancers (OPC, or throat cancers). Investigators have determined that HR-HPV DNA can be detected in saliva in most patients with HPV-driven OPC at the time of diagnosis. This work highlights a potentially life-saving screening program based on salivary HR-HPV DNA testing for early cancer detection and patient monitoring. Their findings appear in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier.

22 Sep 2021

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CDC awards $15.88 million to Wayne State University to study viral infection surveillance

Research points the way to identifying new precision treatments for cancer

Study investigates long-COVID symptoms in people recovering from COVID-19 infection

Effect of biologic therapy on COVID-19 in children suffering from rheumatic diseases

Study finds even individuals with mild COVID-19 suffer from long-COVID

Seven symptoms can be used to maximize detection of COVID-19

Mass Eye and Ear researcher receives P50 NIH grant to establish new center for neurological voice disorders

Scientists identify potential antibody candidate with broad-spectrum neutralizing efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 variants

New discovery greatly improves detection of HPV in the bloodstream

Researchers develop new method for rapidly detecting SARS-CoV-2 RNA

Further evidence of safety and efficacy of mRNA-1273 vaccine in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 infection

Long-term effects of COVID-19 in children

Hypertonic saline solution shown to inhibit replication of SARS-CoV-2

Research highlights potentially life-saving screening for HR-HPV–driven head and neck cancers

Neurokinin-1 receptor: a potential drug target for the treatment of COVID-19

Role of extracellular vesicles embedded with engineered ACE2 in the neutralization of the SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus

COVID-19 vaccine-related allergies are rare, typically mild and treatable, finds study

mAb treatment can rapidly select for SARS-CoV-2 resistance, suggests study

Scientists examine kids’ unique immune systems as more fall victim to covid

Urine sampling not to be restricted to children with unexplained fever, say researchers

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