Case reports thrombocytopenia with thrombosis following COVID-19 mRNA vaccine
(American College of Physicians) A single case reports thrombocytopenia with thrombosis syndrome (TTS) following the mRNA-1273 vaccine for COVID-19. Previously, it was hypothesized that adenoviral vector-based vaccines were the sole cause of TTS or vaccine-induced TTS (VITT). The case is published in Annals of Internal Medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Mental health of high school students during social distancing, remote schooling during COVID-19
(JAMA Network)What The Study Did: High school students in Austria were surveyed about their well-being, sleep quality, eating and symptoms of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Face masks that can diagnose COVID-19
(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) What if your face mask could tell you if you have COVID-19? Now it can, thanks to researchers from the Wyss Institute and MIT. They embedded freeze-dried cell-free biological reactions that can detect SARS-CoV-2 in a patient's breath into a face mask, creating a wearable diagnostic that can quickly and accurately diagnose COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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New face mask prototype can detect COVID-19 infection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Engineers at MIT and Harvard have designed a prototype face mask that can diagnose the person wearing the mask with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. The technology can also be used to design wearable sensors for a variety of other pathogens or toxic chemicals. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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New tools for pandemic prevention research: DNA sequencing from water and leech
(Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW)) In a new scientific investigation headed by the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW), water from African and Mongolian waterholes as well as bloodmeals from Southeast Asian leeches were assessed for the ability to retrieve mammalian viruses without the need to find and catch the mammals. The scientists analysed the samples using high throughput sequencing to identify known viruses as well as viruses new to science. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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COVID-19 patients recover faster with metabolic activator treatment, study shows
(KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) Metabolic activators were found to reduce recovery time by as many as 3.5 days in patients with mild-to-moderate Covid-19, according to a study published today in Advanced Science. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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RAMBO speeds searches on huge DNA databases
(Rice University) Rice computer scientists are sending RAMBO to rescue genomic researchers who sometimes wait days or weeks for search results from enormous DNA databases. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Connective tissue protein fights bacterial infection
(NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine) A connective tissue protein known to support the framework of organs also encourages immune responses that fight bacterial infections, while restraining responses that can be deadly in the condition called sepsis. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Next-generation sequencing of community-based COVID-19 samples to detect emerging variants
(University of Illinois at Chicago) Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are offering free rapid diagnostic testing for COVID-19 in vulnerable Chicago communities and performing genomic sequencing on the samples to identify variants. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Public opinion surveys on vaccine hesitancy can help predict where vaccine uptake is likely to be lower
(University of Exeter) Public opinion surveys could be used more widely to understand regional variation in vaccine hesitancy, experts have recommended. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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CHOP researchers discover unique immune response by cells critical to lung health
(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia) CHOP researchers have discovered that a specific type of lung cell exhibits unconventional immune properties and may contribute to the outcome of respiratory viral infections. They found that AT2 cells express high levels of major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II), an important immune system trigger, and that AT2 MHC-II expression appears to confer an appreciable advantage in the outcome of respiratory viral infection. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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COVID-19 vaccine generates immune structures critical for lasting immunity
(Washington University School of Medicine) A new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, published June 28 in the journal Nature, has found evidence that the immune response to Pfizer's mRNA vaccine against COVID-19 is both strong and potentially long-lasting. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Transparent mask increases comprehension of speech by 10%, study shows
(Funda ç ã o de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de S ã o Paulo) An online study involving 154 volunteers measured the importance of visual cues to communication for people with normal hearing and hearing loss. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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New molecule found in chestnut leaves disarms dangerous staph bacteria
(Emory Health Sciences) Scientists isolated a molecule, extracted from the leaves of the European chestnut tree, with the power to neutralize dangerous, drug-resistant staph bacteria. Frontiers in Pharmacology published the finding, led by scientists at Emory University. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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Drone tech's next big target: insect pest management
(Entomological Society of America) Drones keep getting smaller, while their potential applications keep getting bigger. And now unmanned aircraft systems are taking on some of the world's biggest small problems: insect pests. From crop-munching caterpillars to disease-transmitting mosquitoes, insects that threaten crops, ecosystems, and public health are being targeted with new pest-management strategies that deploy drones for detection and control. A variety of these applications are featured in a new special collection in the Journal of Economic Entomology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
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