Infectious Disease & Vaccines
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From tuberculosis to drug-resistant bacterial infections, infectious diseases that plagued the globe long before COVID-19 still affect people today.
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People with cystic fibrosis seem resistant to COVID-19. Researchers developed a culture system to interrogate the mechanism behind it.
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A bioengineer mines the biometric data from smartwatches and smartphones to find digital biomarkers for respiratory infections like COVID-19.
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Researchers use GWAS to understand why some people lose their sense of smell and taste when they are infected with COVID-19.
Bats, pigs, and pangolins – oh my! The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the consequences of viral spillover from animals, but it is not the first time in history that an animal virus has spurred disease in humans.
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Scientists engineer the photosynthetic bacteria spirulina to produce biologics at a large enough scale to treat some of the world’s deadliest and most prevalent diseases.
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The long-term effects that many recovered COVID-19 patients experience, known as long COVID, seem unusual. But are they really?
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Using bioinformatics and machine learning, scientists probe the depths of fungal genomes to find new compounds for undruggable cancers and infections.
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From sea squirts to ants to opossums on the side of the road, the bacteria that live in animal microbiomes are a surprising source of new antifungals.
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The history of antibody research has led to modern immunotherapy treatments for infectious diseases.
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Small antibodies called nanobodies produced in camels, llamas, and alpacas might help stop the spread of COVID-19, but can they stand up against the competition?
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The recent COVID-19 mRNA vaccines represent a new wave of vaccines based on mRNA technology.
