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Genomic studies could impact pneumococcal disease vaccine design

A revolutionary genomic surveillance study has provided the clearest picture yet of the arms race between Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for a range of illnesses such as pneumococcal disease, and...

24 August, 2022

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Will vaccine skeptics change their minds?

A new kind of predictive network model could help determine which people will change their minds about contentious scientific issues when presented with evidence-based information. A new study in Science Advances...

24 August, 2022

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Scientists develop effective intranasal mumps-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate

New research by the Ohio State University, US, has advanced COVID-19 vaccine work in several ways: using a modified live attenuated mumps virus for delivery, showing that a more stable coronavirus spike protein...

22 August, 2022

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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases

Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. Researchers...

11 August, 2022

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Viral role in Alzheimer’s Disease discovered

Researchers from Oxford’s Institute of Population Ageing, Tufts University and the University of Manchester have discovered that common viruses appear to play a role in some cases of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The causes...

10 August, 2022

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Tuberculosis vaccine passes safety test

The vaccine candidate VPM1002 shows its safety in a study with HIV- and non-HIV-exposed newborns No other infectious disease has killed more people than tuberculosis. Currently, only one vaccine is available to prevent...

8 August, 2022

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Giant viruses build a cell nucleus surprisingly like our own

New technologies provide unprecedented view of virus’ ‘weird biology’—critical for future biomedical applications against bacterial infections Humans aren’t the only targets for viruses. Like us, bacteria become...

4 August, 2022

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New monkeypox tracing method can analyze multiple samples and quickly detect virus strains

Dutch company Molecular Biology Systems (MBS), in collaboration with Amsterdam University Medical Center, and researchers from the Danish Rigshospitalet, has developed a fast typing method to trace monkeypox. The new...

3 August, 2022

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Common viruses may be triggering the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease can begin almost imperceptibly, often masquerading in the early months or years as forgetfulness that is common in older age. What causes the disease remains largely a mystery. But researchers at...

2 August, 2022

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Chinese scientists propose a new live-virus flu vaccine

Using attenuated, live viruses as vaccines is a promising strategy to reduce the impact of viral infectious diseases, such as influenza. Traditional live-attenuated virus vaccines have, however, often been limited due...

1 August, 2022

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