USF receives nearly $1M to use AI to fight mosquito-borne viruses
The University of South Florida has received a $900,000 grant to use artificial intelligence to fight mosquito-borne diseases.
The university announced Wednesday it received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Researchers will collect data through smartphone apps, uploading images of mosquitos that will then be identified with their species and potential to transmit viruses, such as Zika. When the phot os are uploaded, the researchers' algorithm analyzes the photos and, over… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care News Headlines - October 15, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Lauren Coffey Source Type: news
USF receives nearly $1M to use AI to fight mosquito-borne viruses
The University of South Florida has received a $900,000 grant to use artificial intelligence to fight mosquito-borne diseases.
The university announced Wednesday it received a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation. Researchers will collect data through smartphone apps, uploading images of mosquitos that will then be identified with their species and potential to transmit viruses, such as Zika. When the phot os are uploaded, the researchers' algorithm analyzes the photos and, over… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - October 15, 2020 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Lauren Coffey Source Type: news
Oropouche virus disease - French Guiana, France
On 30 September 2020, the French Guiana Regional Health Agency (ARS) reported the first detection of Oropouche virus (OROV) in French Guiana. On 22 September 2020 the Pasteur Institute in Cayenne (a member of the French National Reference Laboratory for arboviruses) notified the France IHR National Focal Point of seven laboratory-confirmed cases of Oropouche virus infection in the village of Sa ül. These cases were identified following clinical investigations of an unusually high number of dengue-like illnesses in the village. Between 11 August and 25 September, there were 37 clinically-compatible cases of Oropouche virus...
Source: WHO Disease Outbreaks - October 13, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: news Source Type: news
Zika Epidemic Was More Widespread Than Thought: Study
THURSDAY, Oct. 8, 2020 -- The Zika epidemic, which began as a mosquito-borne viral infection and led to severe birth defects, affected far more people than previously thought, new research shows.
For the study, researchers analyzed data from 15... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - October 8, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Announces European Commission Approval of Agreement to Supply 200 Million Doses of Janssen ’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
New Brunswick, N.J., October 8, 2020 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the European Union (EU) Member States, has approved an Advance Purchase Agreement in which the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies will supply 200 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate to EU Member States following approval or authorization from regulators. The EU Member States also have the option to secure up to 200 million additional doses.“The COVID-19 pandemic continues to threaten communities worldwide and we have a responsibility to ensure access to our C...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - October 8, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Our Company Source Type: news
Zika infections drastically underreported during 2015 epidemic
(University of Notre Dame) More than 100 million infections of Zika virus within Central and South America and the Caribbean went undetected between 2015 and 2018, according to a new study. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 1, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
How zika virus degrades essential protein for neurological development via autophagy
(University of Maryland) Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) shed new light on how Zika virus hijacks our own cellular machinery to break down an essential protein for neurological development, getting it to " eat itself " . By triggering this process known as autophagy, Zika virus is able to degrade an important protein, a process that may contribute to the development of neurological or brain deficiencies and congenital birth defects in the newborns of infected pregnant women. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - September 28, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
J & J ’s COVID-19 Vaccine Will Enter Phase 3 Testing, the Fourth To Reach That Stage
Johnson & Johnson announced today (Sept. 23) that it is launching a large-scale Phase 3 test of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, which was developed based on science supported by the National Institutes of Health. The vaccine, being tested through the company’s Janssen Pharmaceuticals arm, will be the fourth to enter late stage studies, following candidates from Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech and AstraZeneca. Unlike those vaccine candidates, which all require two shots, J&J’s vaccine involves a single injection. That means it could require half the number of doses to immunize the same number of people.
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Source: TIME: Health - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson ’ s Coronavirus Vaccine Enters Phase 3 Trial With Beth Israel
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Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Covid-19 Boston, MA Health Healthcare Status Beth Israel Deacones Medical Center Coronavirus Johnson & Johnson Source Type: news
Johnson & Johnson Initiates Pivotal Global Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Janssen ’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., September 23, 2020 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735, being developed by its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies. The initiation of the ENSEMBLE trial follows positive interim results from the Company’s Phase 1/2a clinical study, which demonstrated that the safety profile and immunogenicity after a single vaccination were supportive of further development. These results have been submitted to medRxiv and are due to be published online imminentl...
Source: Johnson and Johnson - September 23, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Our Company Source Type: news
Zika and ubiquitin
Ubiquitylation of the Zika virus envelope protein drives viral entry and pathogenesis. (Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment)
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - September 21, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Foley, J. F. Tags: STKE Editors ' Choice Source Type: news
'Why wait for it?' How to predict a pandemic
Strides are being made towards an open access atlas that could predict where dangerous animal-borne viruses will next appearHow do you predict where a deadly tropical disease such as Ebola, possibly the most virulent in the world, will appear next? Since it first emerged in a small town on the edge of a Congolese forest, it has broken out in seven other African countries, often thousands of miles apart.Sometimes it has spilled out of remote rainforest and then disappeared for years. Other times it has turned up in cities, baffling world bodies and governments that can only try to respond as fast as possible. But actually, ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 16, 2020 Category: Science Authors: John Vidal Tags: Infectious diseases Ebola Zika virus Coronavirus outbreak Microbiology Medical research Science World news Animals Farming Environment Climate change Source Type: news
Lab-on-paper strip: Small, inexpensive platform for diagnosing tropical fevers
(GIST (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)) Dengue, zika, and chikungunya viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes and cause tropical fevers with similar symptoms, making accurate diagnosis complicated. Now, researchers from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea have developed a simple and low-cost diagnostic platform--a lab-on-paper strip--that can readily detect the specific RNA of these viruses from a small blood sample. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - September 11, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How the Coronavirus Attacks the Brain
It ’s not just the lungs — the pathogen may enter brain cells, causing symptoms like delirium and confusion, scientists reported. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - September 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Apoorva Mandavilli Tags: your-feed-science Stroke Delirium Brain Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Immune System Nerves and Nervous System Zika Virus Muotri, Alysson Stevens, Robert Source Type: news
Study identifies how infection by Zika virus during pregnancy can affect the fetal brain
(Funda ç ã o de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de S ã o Paulo) The study by more than 30 Brazilian scientists investigated tens of thousands of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic variables, discovering several alterations caused by the v í rus. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - September 3, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
