Breathe in, breathe out. That’s how easy it is for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to enter your nose. And though remarkable progress has been made in developing intramuscular vaccines against SARS-CoV- 2...
A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it’s infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and...
Scientists believe that vaccinating the entire global population is the key to contain the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This pandemic is caused by the rapid outbreak of a ribonucleic acid (RNA)...
Researchers argue that a desire for “conformity and obedience” as a result of COVID-19 could boost authoritarianism in the wake of the pandemic. According to psychologists, in addition to our physiological immune system...
Covid-19 has been called a “once in a century” pandemic, but new research suggests that the kind of event thought to have sparked its outbreak – the spillover of a bat virus to people – is more common than previously...
More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, the African continent has fully vaccinated only 3 percent of its 1.2 billion people. This vaccination rate lags far behind other parts of the world, including Europe...
A Princeton University and McGill University study published Aug. 17 in Science journal revealed that vaccine nationalism may lead to increases in the transmission of COVID-19. The authors define vaccine nationalism as...
Tuberculosis incidence among people aged 50 years or older in the United States is high but declining rapidly within subsequent birth cohorts, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases. As an example, the...
Drew Weissman’s decades of research helped pave the way for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but the scientist isn’t resting on his laurels. The University of Pennsylvania immunologist, who on Thursday shared the $3...
A recent US study, currently available on bioRxiv preprint server, implies that vaccination with bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) can limit the infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV...