What You Need to Know About the Kraken Covid Variant
[ad_1] Since Omicron became the world’s dominant Covid variant, it’s taken on a lot of shapes. First there was BA.1, then BA.5, and eventually others, including BQ.1 and BQ.1.1. Now all…
Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
[ad_1] To figure out what exactly was causing this antiviral capability, the scientists then incubated the vesicles with the viruses and imaged them under a microscope. They found that the…
Get Ready to Play ‘Guess the Viral Variant’
[ad_1] 2020 was the year of Covid lockdowns, 2021 the year of vaccines, and 2022 the year of worldwide reopening. 2023 will be the year of variant prediction. The first…
Brace Yourself for a Triple Wave of Seasonal Viruses
[ad_1] Every year it’s the same. As soon as it starts to get cold, people gather indoors. Windows are pulled shut. Commuters forgo walking or cycling, opting for packed buses…
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
[ad_1] The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact, it’s warming nearly four times quicker than the rest of the world,…
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr
[ad_1] Dornbusch thinks this strategy will spare patients from serious side effects and “off-target” edits—unintentional cuts elsewhere in the genome that could cause problems such as cancer. The regions targeted…
What Is Monkeypox? Everything You Need to Know About Symptoms, Spread, and More
[ad_1] Based on previous data from Africa, the two available vaccines are thought to be up to 85 percent effective at preventing a monkeypox infection. They can also be given…
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.…
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…
The Covid Virus Keeps Evolving. Why Haven’t Vaccines?
[ad_1] On March 16, 2020, the first volunteer received a shot of Moderna’s then-experimental Covid-19 vaccine, just 63 days after the company had generated a genetic blueprint of the new…