Computer simulations showing how patients and staff move around inside hospitals are helping civil engineers make modifications to help control the transmission of COVID-19. Similar visualisations could also help schools, offices and care homes lower the risk of infection spread, not just from COVID-19, but from other contagions like Ebola and future viruses. Brunel University […]
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Vaccine passports linked to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in UK and Israel: A new study from Imperial College London has found a link between COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and a perceived lack of free will over vaccine passports. The findings, taken from surveys of 1,358 people across the UK and Israel – two highly vaccinated countries – […]
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Moving towards digital documentation of COVID-19 status: Vaccination certificates are nothing new. They are health documents that record a vaccination event – traditionally as a paper card – with key details including the date, product and batch number of the vaccine administered. The Digital Documentation of COVID-19 Certificates is proposed as a mechanism by which […]
Researchers discover control mechanism for melanoma skin cancer: How the intricacies of tissue memory T cells could be the future of immunotherapies and vaccines In a significant step forward in understanding the crucial role tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells play in the immune system, researchers have for the first time described how the cells behave […]
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A century-old BCG vaccine could help reduce the incidence of eczema in high-risk infants due to its beneficial off-target effects, according to a new MCRI-led allergy study. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), a vaccine used in Australia until the 1980s to prevent tuberculosis, had been tested in a trial to see if it can reduce the rate […]
Vaccines, variants and infection: The position this winter: Webinar Date and time: Wed 22 Sep 2021 from 12:30pm to 3:30pm In April 2020, Professor Chris Whitty told the RSM that “Covid is not going to go away – this is now a disease that, for the rest of our careers, is going to be around”. Positing […]
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Discover how mRNA vaccines help your immune system fight viral infections and how this decades-old technology was used to create COVID-19 vaccines. — In the 20th century, most vaccines took over a decade to research, test, and produce. But the vaccines for COVID-19 were cleared for emergency use in less than 11 months. The […]
Responding to the latest set of performance figures released by NHS England for July 2021, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Katherine Henderson, said: “The NHS has been running hot for months now and these figures show we are nearly at boiling point. “We are worried that the public think that things […]
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Researchers have shown ‘gene drive’ technology, which spreads a genetic modification blocking female reproduction, works in natural-like settings. The team, led by researchers from Imperial College London, Polo GGB, and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine were able to suppress populations of a malaria-carrying mosquito in a year-long experiment mimicking natural environments. This is the first […]
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SARS-CoV-2 not found in DNA sequencing: University of Queensland researchers are refuting claims that COVID-19 can enter a person’s DNA. The researchers from UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute say the claims have led to “scaremongering” and people should not hesitate to be vaccinated. Professor Geoff Faulkner said his team’s research published in Cell Reports showed there was no evidence of COVID-19 […]