These Vaccines Will Take Aim at Covid—and Its Entire SARS Lineage
[ad_1] Even though the researchers only used a RBD from one version of Covid, their vaccine generated a robust polyclonal response—meaning it created multiple antibody types, rather than just one.…
Scan Your Shopping Cart With Yuka and Make Healthier Choices
[ad_1] The Yuka ratings for food come from three weighted considerations: 60% from the Nutri-Score 30% from additives 10% based on whether the product is organic Nutri-Score is used in…
The High-Stakes Race to Engineer New Psychedelic Drugs
[ad_1] “This is my life,” Wallach says. “There is nothing else I’d rather be doing. If I was given a billion dollars, today, the first thing I would do is…
Can Ring Vaccination Contain Monkeypox in the US?
[ad_1] Ring vaccination worked for smallpox because a person-to-person pattern of spread makes it possible to predict and interrupt chains of transmission. The process is straightforward: Find the people most…
After Roe, Men Might Finally Get Better Birth Control
[ad_1] Phase 2 trials test a drug for both efficacy and safety, typically in hundreds of volunteers, and look for harmful or unpleasant drug reactions. A previous Phase 2 trial…
A Tool for Fighting Superbugs Has Been Found Deep in the Desert
[ad_1] And there are undoubtedly many more bacteria out there that could give us useful new antibiotics to use. But if you find what appears to be a promising one,…
Pandemic Death Counts Are Numbing. There’s Another Way to Process
[ad_1] What does the incalculable look like? How does the unfathomable feel? Can you listen to the unimaginable? We are in the midst of the single largest mass mortality event…
Gender-Affirming Care Improves Mental Health—and May Save Lives
[ad_1] In the midst of a slew of anti-trans legislation proposed earlier this year, Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, made an impassioned plea to his state’s legislature as…
How Heat Waves Are Messing Up Your Sleep
[ad_1] Getting less than seven hours of sleep a night regularly, the minimum benchmark for adults, has also been associated with heart problems, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, among other…
How to Support People in States Where Abortion Is Under Threat
[ad_1] TEA recognizes that abortions are essential health care and their donation page can be found here. Right by You Missouri was one of the first states to outlaw abortion…
‘Blood Washing’ Is the Latest Dubious—and Pricey—Long-Covid Trend
[ad_1] The Covid-19 pandemic is considered by many experts to be a mass disabling event. Though most people fully recover from a battle with the highly infectious coronavirus, a significant…