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A new study has identified an association between a genetic variant that increases the risk of developing severe COVID-19 and protection against HIV infection.

Analysis of 60 billion tweets has shown that social media can form an echo chamber contributing to vaccine hesitancy.

Treating babies with antibiotics in the first week of life is linked with a decrease in healthy bacteria necessary amongst others to digest milk and an increase in antimicrobial resistance, research suggests.

A post-transcriptional modification to mRNA can protect the mRNA from virus-mediated degradation in Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection.

A protein complex involved in controlling cell death has been identified and targeted for inhibition to protect cells against excessive cell death in inflammation-associated diseases.

Chemists have discovered the structure of a protein that can pump toxic molecules out of bacterial cells. Proteins similar to this one are believed to help bacteria become resistant to multiple antibiotics.

A mechanism has been found that allows Legionella pneumophila to target the immune response of the cells it infects by secreting a small regulatory RNA, facilitating its survival and proliferation.

Researchers have mapped the human gut at a greater resolution than before, showing how cell types differ across regions of the intestines and shedding light on cellular functions.

A protein needed for the growth and survival of the protozoan that causes malaria has been identified, providing a potential new therapeutic target.

Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus has a well-known resistance mutation to one of its enzymes that has recently been characterized. This mutation enables the enzyme to use the cofactor of different chirality to evade antibiotics.