What if tropical diseases had as much attention as COVID?
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode large gains against AIDS, tuberculosis, & malaria. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03...
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The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to erode large gains against AIDS, tuberculosis, & malaria. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03...
With no federal mandates to follow, an increasing number of U.S. airlines and airports are offering preflight coronavirus testing to...
Why do we keep asking children to bear the brunt of a lockdown? SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus cases have definitely been more common in...
Babies who receive 1 dose of antibiotics more likely to have asthma, eczema, hay fever, food allergies, celiac disease, problems with...
Research into the relationship between the brain and the bacteria in our bellies is uncovering links to an increasing number of...
Biotechnology firm Moderna announced that a preliminary analysis shows its experimental coronavirus vaccine is nearly 95% effective at...
Officials in the US reported >11 million total cases of coronavirus as of Sunday. Cases passed 10 million just a week ago, and >1 in 400...
The world has come to depend on antibody tests to check whether someone's already had Covid-19, but a different test, one that looks at...
Researchers have long been interested in the tube used by bacteriophages to implant their DNA into bacteria. They have now revealed the...
Most patients with severe complications from COVID-19 have underlying conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. In...
Researchers were able to associate teff-seed extracts & teff consumption with positive effects on the intestinal microbiome composition &...
Researchers found that children with autism spectrum disorder have an unusual microbial profile. Adjusting the gut microbiota by...
The test is based on multiple antigens from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, mostly from its outer spike & nucleocapsid proteins....
Delhi, India, is battling both toxic air pollution & a record surge in coronavirus cases. The combination can have deadly consequences,...
The fungus that some dogs carry in their nose (Aspergillus fumigatus) evolves within the dog's nose. The genetic changes indicate...
RT-PCRs to detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA is key to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed SARS-CoV-2 viral loads from 22′323 RT-PCR results...
Currently, there is no specific antiviral treatment for COVID-19. However, drugs previously developed to treat other viral infections are...
The last five years has seen a sharp rise in anti-science rhetoric in the United States, especially from the political far right, mostly...
Researchers confirm the correlation between an imbalance in the gut microbiota and the development of amyloid plaques in the brain in...
A psittacosis epidemic linked to fulmar hunting occurred on the Faroe Islands in the 1930s. This study investigates a plausible...