A novel metric that estimates our "burden," or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of researchers at Mount Sinai.
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Global Virus Network Analysis Suggests Measles, Polio and Tuberculosis Vaccines May Boost Immunity to Coronavirus
Innate Immunity Created by Live Attenuated Vaccines Like Measles and Polio May Provide Some Protection Against Future Pandemics - Idea Needs To Be Tested, Scientists Say
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BALTIMORE, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Members of the Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition comprised of human and animal virologists from 63 Centers of Excellence and 11 Affiliates in 35 countries, and colleagues today published a perspective proposing that live attenuated vaccines (LAVs), such as those for tuberculosis, measles, and polio, may induce protective innate immunity that mitigate other infectious diseases, triggering the human body s natural emergency response to infections including COVID-19 as well as future pandemic threats.
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
Some University of Mississippi Medical Center clinicians devised their own COVID-19 safety messaging to try to get ahead of the fast-spreading coronavirus.
As community transmission of COVID-19 took hold last March, state health departments launched messaging blasts that some experts say missed the mark with an overly vague suggested response, essentially giving up an opportunity to get ahead of the novel coronavirus.
Dr. Leandro Mena, a clinician-researcher and chair of the Department of Population Health Science at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said the health departments’ instructions to the public often centered on just calling a doctor if worried or they had signs and symptoms of infection. “For me there was a little bit of a problem with the messaging and lack of awareness,” Mena said.
March 8, 2021
March 8, 2021 | New products and company updates from around Bio-IT including Seven Bridges’ partnership with Pfizer, Illumina’s Russian approval, new methylation detection platform from Twist, and more.
Corteva Agriscience has signed a multi-year agreement with
Genestack to implement and license the use of Omics Data Manager, Genestack’s multi-omics data catalogue, curation and integrative search product. This agreement will facilitate the full utilization of collected research data, enabling insights to help improve the delivery of products, services and solutions to benefit farmers. Omics Data Manager (ODM) will help researchers at Corteva Agriscience accelerate the characterization of novel seed and crop protection solutions through better aggregation of experimental data. ODM provides a single, modern, interface to identify the biological samples of interest across public and internal datasets, which, combined with powerful curation tools, w