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Professor Emma Duncan from King's College London answers questions on COVID vaccines and menstruation, and whether or not they can affect your cycle.

There are many different factors that might contribute to a change in an individual's menstrual cycle, and we wanted to know whether there is any evidence that suggests COVID-19 disease, or vaccination, could be examples of such factors. Answering our questions in this Teach Me in 10 episode is Dr Susan Khalil, assistant professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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A new vaccine under development at Duke University has the potential to protect against a broad variety of coronavirus infections that move from animals to humans, now and in the future. The new vaccine – called a pan-coronavirus vaccine - has been 100 percent effective in non-human tests including testing on primates. Success in primates is very relevant to humans

For this installment of Teach Me in 10, we are joined by Dr. Alexandre Almeida, a postdoctoral fellow in the Finn research group at the EMBL-EBI. Almeida teaches us all about the hidden secrets of the human microbiome, in less than 10 minutes.

What is the guidance for vaccination of women with breastfeeding infants, women who are pregnant or planning to get pregnant and women who are menstruating? What about vaccines and fertility? WHO’s Dr Soumya Swaminathan explains in Science in 5.

Dig into the unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which spanned 40 years and lied to its participants about receiving treatment for syphilis.

Mining the world’s most comprehensive drug repurposing collection for COVID-19 therapies, scientists have identified 90 existing drugs or drug candidates with antiviral activity against the coronavirus that’s driving the ongoing global pandemic.

Join this Teach Me in 10 session to hear Corning Life Sciences Digital Manager Roxana Ghadessy and Corning Life Sciences Product Line Manager Shabana Islam talk to us about disease modeling using ALI tools and systems.

Susan S. Khalil, MD, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, explains that medical researchers have not found any evidence that the COVID-19 vaccine will impact the menstrual cycle.