Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, February 13th, 2021 - 84 comments
Back in May, I wrote a post “Covid-19: may be endemic“. That is looking like it is more and more likely. The depth of infection in world populations means that recombinant variants are likely. Vaccines and previous immunity will reduce the death rates and infection rates. But won’t stop reinfection. Human behaviour will keep covid-19 as an endemic disease.
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A team from the Francis Crick Institute, UCL and Cambridge University has been awarded $7.7million to identify the genetic and biological factors that cause Parkinson’s disease.
The team, co-led by Sonia Gandhi, Group Leader of the Crick’s Neurodegeneration Biology laboratory, has received the grant from ASAP (Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s). This global research initiative funds teams that are working on understanding the basic mechanisms that contribute to the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease.
By using advanced imaging methods to look for single molecules, or oligomers, in the brain as indicators of early onset of the disease, the researchers aim to build a map of the cells first affected and the conditions progression. By looking at all the genes expressed in those specific cells, they will build a model that shows how genetic factors affect pathways that cause Parkinson’s. The aim is to then modify these gene
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It was a small but telling illustration of the gap between public expectations of the eagerly-anticipated new COVID-19 vaccines and the long, unpredictable road still ahead.
On Wednesday, federal acting Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, revealed that an “old friend” had emailed to see if his daughter, working in intensive care in Britain, might be allowed to return to Australia without quarantine because she’d received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioBTech vaccine – which British authorities had started rolling out only days before. An “interesting” proposition, Kelly said tactfully.
Get that jab: Healthcare workers wait to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at UCI Medical Centre in California on Wednesday.