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Engineering Biomaterials for Better Vaccines
Researchers describe two possibilities being explored by scientists in the field to make vaccines more effective and build surfaces that could fight and kill viruses on their own.
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WHO Says Oxford’s Vaccine Is Safe and Likely to Be Efficacious in Older Adults
The World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) yesterday produced guidelines for the emergency use of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford with its partner AstraZeneca.
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Fighting Bacteria With Viruses in Hard-To-Reach Locations
A novel strategy using phage - viruses that infect bacteria - has the potential to become a game changer in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria that live in hard-to-reach places.
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FDA Authorizes Monoclonal Antibody Treatment of COVID-19
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for bamlanivimab and etesevimab administered together for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age or older weighing at least 40 kilograms [about 88 pounds]) who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 and who are at high risk for progressing to severe COVID-19.
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Food Supplement Pigment Sourced From Microalgae
Through targeted cultivation, researchers obtained microalgae biomass with a high content of carotenoid pigments - essential to human health but often lacking in diets - which is suitable for the food industry.
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Fecal Transplant Boosts Cancer Immunotherapy
Researchers have demonstrated that changing the gut microbiome can transform how patients with advanced melanoma respond to immunotherapy.
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Vaccine Diminishes Fatal Respiratory Effects of Synthetic Opioids
As the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force during COVID-19, the Scripps Research laboratory of chemist Kim Janda, PhD, has been working on new therapeutic interventions that may be able to prevent the bulk of deaths from opioid overdose.
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Technique Gives a Window Into the Impact of Prebiotics and Probiotics on Gut Health
Researchers have developed a noninvasive way for identifying the major functions of the gastrointestinal tract, enabling them to assess the efficacy of frequently controversial prebiotics and probiotics on gut microbial health.
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Technique Enables Rapid Quantification of Vaccination-Induced Immune Response
Researchers have developed a new strategy for fast and reliable antibody tests, which can quantify the immune response induced by vaccination and reveal the timeline and stage of pathogen infection.
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