Biomedicine & Disease
Stem cell transplants show promise as possible AIDS cure
[A study] demonstrated a successful stem cell transplantation from donors harboring an HIV-resistant gene. Blood taken from the patient revealed ...
Why flu vaccines don’t work for very long
A new study from a team from Emory Vaccine Center provides insights into why the flu vaccine’s immunity is shorter ...
Podcast: Vaccines take years to develop? This one took 43 days
Most experts agree that the COVID19 pandemic will not end until a vaccine is available. But traditionally, vaccines take a decade ...
Vaccine danger? Rare complications after getting a shot could increase severity of COVID-19
Vaccines are designed to produce immune-system agents, including antibodies, that lock onto a virus and thereby neutralize it. In cases ...
Gene therapy for hemophilia delayed until 2022 after FDA rejects one-time treatment, shocking doctors and scientists
U.S. regulators rejected [Biomarin’s] potentially game-changing hemophilia A gene therapy over concerns it might not really be a one-and-done lifetime ...
GMO crops don’t cause infertility, systematic evidence review finds
A systematic review of published literature was conducted to determine genetically modified (GM) plants' potential impacts in infertility indices. Based ...
‘Will a COVID vaccine work on the grossly overweight? Our prediction is no’
[I]n the United States, where at least 4.6 million people have been infected and nearly 155,000 have died, the promise ...
Would you volunteer to get intentionally infected with COVID?
U.S. government scientists have begun efforts to manufacture a strain of the novel coronavirus that could be used in human ...
$10 COVID saliva test with results in three hours approved for rollout
[A] new test, which is called SalivaDirect and was developed by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health, allows ...
Fewer infants test positive for the coronavirus. Understanding why could help all of us
The initial data suggest that infants make up a small fraction of people who have tested positive for COVID-19. A ...
Italy and Israel bet on GM microalgae to develop edible COVID vaccine
The rush to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 has extended to Italy and Israel, where scientists are using the tools ...
Podcast: Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life
Geneticist Dr Kat Arney brings you exclusive excerpts from her new book Rebel Cell, exploring where cancer came from, where ...
FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn: ‘Decisions about approving vaccines will be based solely on good science’
The framework in the United States to support a covid-19 vaccine is now in place. Testing is underway and manufacturing ...
Sputnik V: Putin claims win in ‘vaccine race,’ as Russia registers first COVID-19 shot amid concerns it is compromising safety
Russia registered the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine, President Vladimir Putin said, marking a milestone in the fight against the novel ...
Video: Death by COVID: The projected grim toll in historical context
The latest statistics, as of July 10, show COVID-19-related deaths in U.S. are just under 1,000 per day nationally, which is ...
‘Tantalizing solutions’: How we are developing the next generation of cancer drugs
Cancer treatments have always been linked to a specific part of the body — these drugs for breast cancer, and ...
DIY COVID-19 vaccine? George Church, other scientists experimenting with home brewed versions
Nearly 200 covid-19 vaccines are in development, and some three dozen are at various stages of human testing. But in ...
Anti-viral drugs might be safer, more effective, and easier to develop than COVID-19 vaccines
Clinicaltrials.gov, the most commonly used registry for worldwide medical research, listed 1358 clinical trials on the [COVID-19], including using scores ...
World War II Jewish Warsaw ghetto in provides blueprint for how US might contain coronavirus
A paper published on [July 24] in Science Advances reports on a sophisticated mathematical analysis that shows how personal hygiene, quarantines, social distancing and ...
No HIV vaccine yet but decades of false starts provide guidance to coronavirus researchers
Thirty-six years [after the virus's discovery], there still is no HIV vaccine. But instead of being a cautionary tale of ...
Vaccine ‘durability’: COVID-19 immunizations coming soon but will they last?
As the days unfold with a seeming sameness in this odd summer of the pandemic, news of vaccine clinical trials ...
Podcast: Mapping Humanity—How modern genetics is changing criminal justice, personalized medicine, and our identities
Innovations in genetics are already changing our lives for the better, and will continue to do so. Using gene-editing technology, ...
Podcast: From the Black Death to COVID-19—Investigating the ancient war between genes and disease
Kat Arney looks at the ancient war between our genes and the pathogens that infect us, from the Black Death ...
COVID-19 cases surge worldwide as WHO confirms virus is not seasonal
Globally, WHO has reported as on [July 28], 16,301,736 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 650,069 deaths. The Americas remains the epicentre by region, ...
What’s it like being in a Phase 3 coronavirus vaccine trial?
I’m at St George’s for an initial screening as a volunteer in the Oxford University trial to test the ChAdOx1 ...
‘A huge amount of wasted effort’: Most COVID-19 studies too small to yield real results
1,200 clinical trials aimed at testing treatment and prevention strategies against Covid-19 [have been designed] since the start of January ...
The human protein that might explain who’s most at risk from Covid-19
The earliest clinical data out of China showed that some [COVID-19 patients] consistently fared worse than others, notably men, the ...
Podcast: Europe suspends GMO rules to speed COVID vaccine; genes and coronavirus; Keto diet fights Alzheimer’s?
Europe has suspended some of its oppressive GMO regulations to speed development of a COVID-19 vaccine, drawing accusations of hypocrisy ...