How a Dairy Worker Got Infected With Bird Flu
Bird flu, or avian influenza, can be deadly in birds but normally doesn’t infect people. While some strains have caused serious disease and even death in humans, most cause relatively mild symptoms.
In the U.S., two people have been known to be infected with avian influenza: one person in 2022, and another earlier this year. In a report published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine—amid growing concern over infections jumping from birds to cows—health officials from the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Texas Department of State Health Services provide details on the la...
Source: TIME: Health - May 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Potential First Known Case of Mammal-to-Human Bird Flu Transmission Detailed
(MedPage Today) -- Strong genetic evidence makes it highly likely that a dairy farm worker in Texas contracted avian influenza A (H5N1) from cattle, according to a detailed case report from the CDC and Texas Department of State Health Services... (Source: MedPage Today Primary Care)
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - May 3, 2024 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
FLGT Stock Earnings: Fulgent Genetics Beats EPS, Misses Revenue for Q1 2024
InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips FLGT stock results show that Fulgent Genetics beat analyst estimates for earnings per share but missed on revenue for the first quarter of 2024. The post FLGT Stock Earnings: Fulgent Genetics Beats EPS, Misses Revenue for Q1 2024…#fulgentgenetics (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Leprosy passed between medieval squirrels and humans, study suggests
Genetic analysis of Winchester samples shows similar strains of disease and supports theory that fur trade played role in spreadLeprosy passed between humans and red squirrels in medieval England, research suggests, supporting the theory that the fur trade could have played a role in the spread of the disease.Leprosy is one of the oldest infectious diseases recorded in humans and is typically caused by the bacteriumMycobacterium leprae.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 3, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Animals Medical research Archaeology Health Microbiology Leicester Wildlife Science UK news Genetics Source Type: news
Where Do Postoperative Infections Come From? Where Do Postoperative Infections Come From?
In most cases, the bacteria causing infection are genetically similar to those present on the patient ' s body before the operation, data indicate.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
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News at a glance: Infrared telescope debuts, GM rice stumbles, and maternal mortality drops
ASTRONOMY
Highest scope opens its infrared eyes
After 26 years of planning and construction, the world’s highest telescope began operating in Chile this week, offering a rare opportunity to make ground-based observations far into the infrared part of the spectrum. The University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory’s (TAO’s) 6.5-meter telescope is not especially large but benefits from its lofty position 5560 meters high on Cerro Chajnantor, a peak in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Moisture in the atmosphere blocks much of the infrared spectrum, and telescopes equipped to record it—such as NAS...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 2, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
A scientist is likely to win Mexico ’s presidency. Not all researchers are rejoicing
Mexico City—
Earlier this year, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stood before thousands of people gathered here in the
Zócalo
, one of the world’s largest city squares, to kick off her campaign for Mexico’s presidency. “We will make Mexico a scientific and innovation power,” she vowed during her 1 March address. “To do this, we will support the basic, natural, social sciences, and the humanities. And we will link them with priority areas and sectors of the country.”
Sheinbaum Pardo, a 61-year-old environmental engineer who has served as Mexico City’s mayor and its environment secretary, has a h...
Source: ScienceNOW - May 2, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
GWAS Identifies 108 Independent Risk Loci for Kidney Cancer
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 -- A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, published online April 26 in Nature Genetics, has identified 63 susceptibility regions containing 108 independent risk loci for kidney cancer.
Mark P. Purdue, Ph.D., from the... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
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BioSolution Designs and RoosterBio Announce Collaboration on Genetically Modified MSCs for Biotherapeutic Development
Together, BSD and RoosterBio deliver an end-to-end solution for the engineering and development of cell- and exosome-based therapeutics. FREDERICK, Md., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BioSolution Designs (BSD), a biotechnology invention studio developing proprietary platforms for... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
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Stuart Orkin
Dr. Stuart Orkin didn’t set out to develop a historic treatment for sickle cell disease 45 years ago when he decided to study how blood cells formed. He became a researcher at Harvard Medical School just as scientists learned how to clone, or make copies of, genes. “Everybody was talking about how we could now fix genetic diseases,” he says. “But no one had any clue what that really meant; it was kind of a Disney fantasy.” Orkin focused his attention on the hemoglobin gene, which is mutated in people with sickle cell anemia and another set of blood diseases called beta thalassemia. Understandi...
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Georg Schett
In recent years, the new immune-based therapy CAR T has dramatically improved outcomes for patients with certain blood cancers that involve B cells, like leukemia and lymphoma. Dr. Georg Schett, a rheumatologist at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany, saw the potential of the treatment for autoimmune diseases like lupus, in which immune B cells attack the body’s own cells. He performed the first CAR T treatments on five patients with the disease in 2022, but “nobody knew whether it would work,” he says. Eight months after receiving the therapy, all five were in remission and no longer needed power...
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New Genetic Variant May Guard Against Alzheimer's New Genetic Variant May Guard Against Alzheimer's
Researchers have discovered a genetic variant that reduces the risk for Alzheimer ' s disease by up to 70%.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Headlines)
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Scientists track & #039;doubling & #039; in origin of cancer cells
Working with human breast and lung cells, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have charted a molecular pathway that can lure cells down a hazardous path of duplicating their genome too many times, a hallmark of cancer cells.
The findings, published May 3 in Science, reveal what goes wrong when a group of molecules and enzymes trigger and regulate what's known as the "cell cycle," the repetitive process of making new cells out of the cells' genetic material. (Source: World Pharma News)
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Impact of Recombinant Replacement Therapy Detailed in Genetic Clotting Disorder
(MedPage Today) -- A recombinant replacement for the ADAMTS13 protein (Adzynma) missing in congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) restored levels and reduced acute TTP events, according to interim trial data that led to FDA approval... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
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Genetics and Genetic Testing to Inform Myelofibrosis Clinical Management
(MedPage Today) -- The history of primary myelofibrosis dates back to 1951 and the description of four distinct clinicopathologic entities that came to be known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs): chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), polycythemia... (Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology)
Source: MedPage Today Hematology/Oncology - May 1, 2024 Category: Hematology Source Type: news
