COVID-19 vaccination elicits antibody response in immunosuppressed patients
Photo Cred: Mat Napo/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination elicited antibody responses in nearly nine out of 10 people with weakened immune systems, although their responses were only...
Read MoreGene therapy may slow neurodegenerative symptom progression
Photo Cred: MART PRODUCTION/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury In a new study on mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers reported in the journal Brain that using MRI scans to measure blood volume...
Read MoreEarly COVID-19 symptoms differ among age groups
Photo Cred: Yoav Aziz/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Symptoms for early novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection differ among age groups and between men and women, according to new research published in the...
Read MoreResearch offers new insights into uncontrolled inflammation in COVID-19
Photo Cred: Karolina Grabowska/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Research led by Queen Mary University of London provides new insight into the mechanisms that lead to uncontrolled inflammation in novel coronavirus (COVID-19)...
Read MoreResearchers discover novel autoantibody, potential target for future COVID-19 therapies
Photo Cred: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury A team of researchers at Michigan Medicine, formerly he University of Michigan Health System, discovered a functional autoantibody in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients that...
Read MoreLancet study looks at inactivated COVID-19 vaccine for children
Photo Cred: CDC/Pexels By Katherine Shagoury Two doses of the inactivated novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, CoronaVac, manufactured by Sinovac, are safe and provoke a strong antibody response among 550 children...
Read MoreCOVID-19 vaccines likely induces lasting immunity, study finds
Photo Cred: Braňo/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccinations producer by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna likely produce an immune response that is strong and potentially long-lasting, according to new...
Read MoreResearchers develop more reliable rapid COVID-19 tests
Photo Cred: Annie Spratt/Unsplash By Katherine Shagoury Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have developed two rapid diagnostic tests for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that are...
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