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Less aviation during COVID lockdown has improved the climate

They studied the extent to which cirrus clouds caused by aircraft occurred during the global hard lockdown between March and May 2020, and compared the values with those during the same period in previous years.

3 Jun 2021

Three plausible solutions mitigates zoonotic risk associated with intensive animal agriculture

As early as the Neolithic period (circa 3900 BC), the domestication of animals likely led to the development of diseases including measles and smallpox. Since then, zoonotic disease has led to other major transnational outbreaks including HIV, Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1 swine flu, among others.

3 Jun 2021

Odor-based test accurately distinguishes hard-to-detect cancers

An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Penn's Perelman School of Medicine.

3 Jun 2021

World Food Safety Day 2021: An Interview with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

To celebrate World Food Safety Day, AZoLifeSciences interviewed Dr. Markus Lipp from the FAO about the importance of food safety in 2021.

From Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2 Jun 2021

Global land-use changes are creating “hot spots” favorable for new coronaviruses

Global land-use changes -- including forest fragmentation, agricultural expansion and concentrated livestock production -- are creating "hot spots" favorable for bats that carry coronaviruses and where conditions are ripe for the diseases to jump from bats to humans, finds an analysis published this week by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milan) and Massey University of New Zealand.

2 Jun 2021

Each city has its own exclusive microbiome, finds study

A new study performed by researchers report that each city has its own exclusive microbiome or a “fingerprint” of bacteria and viruses that uniquely identify it.

1 Jun 2021

Worm cells sense metabolism changes to stimulate their defense against pathogens

Microbial infections form part of the wider repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, and researchers are focusing more on such infections.

1 Jun 2021

Tracking Green Sahara using fossil plant molecules

The Sahara has not always been covered by only sand and rocks. During the period from 14,500 to 5,000 years ago large areas of North Africa were more heavily populated, and where there is desert today the land was green with vegetation.

1 Jun 2021

Novel drug is highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice

The drug diABZI -- which activates the body's innate immune response -- was highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice that were infected with SARS-CoV-2,

31 May 2021

Digital tool predicts protein stability in a cheaper, safer, and faster way

A cutting-edge digital tool that will make it cheaper, safer and faster for pharmaceutical companies to predict protein stability - a vital step in the development of new medicines - is being rolled out by scientists from the UK's University of Bath through their spin-out company, BLOC Labs.

From University of Bath 31 May 2021

New wiki promotes development of innovative saliva-based diagnostic tests and customized treatment

The NIDCR has funded the creation of the Human Salivary Proteome Wiki, the first public platform that organizes information on each of the proteins found in human saliva.

27 May 2021

New plasmofluidic chip could accelerate diagnosis during current and future pandemics

Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been the gold standard for diagnosis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

27 May 2021

Neutralizing antibodies are produced after SARS-CoV-2 infection

A research group from Osaka University led by Professor Hisashi Arase and consisting of researchers from the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, the Institute for Protein Research, the Immunology Frontier Research Center, the Center for Infectious Diseases, and the Graduate School of Medicine has discovered for the first time that both neutralizing antibodies that protect against infection as well as infection-enhancing antibodies that increase infectivity are produced after infection with SARS-CoV-2 by analyzing antibodies derived from COVID-19 patients.

From Osaka University 26 May 2021

New method helps tests large groups for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Researchers at the Vienna BioCenter designed a testing protocol for SARS-CoV-2 that can process tens of thousands of samples in less than 48 hours. The method, called SARSeq, is published in the journal Nature Communications and could be adapted to many more pathogens.

25 May 2021

Convergence science are needed to prevent plant disease outbreaks

Plant diseases don't stop at national borders and miles of oceans don't prevent their spread, either. That's why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

24 May 2021

New projections can help support COVID-19 patients experiencing homelessness

A new study provides public health planning authorities with a method of calculating the number of COVID-19 isolation beds they would need for people experiencing homelessness based on level of infection in the city.

21 May 2021

Researchers discover canine coronavirus in East Malaysia

Researchers have discovered a new coronavirus, found in a child with pneumonia in Malaysia in 2018, that appears to have jumped from dog to human.

21 May 2021

Study shows that Bubonic Plague had a long-term impact on immune gene expression

A new study shows that the Bubonic Plague has had a long-term impact on immune gene expression.

20 May 2021

New study assesses total economic impact of human genomics

Human genetics and genomifefcs contributed $265 billion to the U.S. economy in 2019 and has the potential to drive significant further growth given major new areas of application, according to a new report issued today by the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG).

19 May 2021

System Performance Qualification - Removing Uncertainty from Your Results

TESTA Analytical Solutions e.K. reports on widespread interest from European laboratories for performance qualifying their particle size, zeta potential and GPC/SEC instruments.

From TESTA Analytical Solutions 19 May 2021

COVID 19 News and Research

Less aviation during COVID lockdown has improved the climate

Three plausible solutions mitigates zoonotic risk associated with intensive animal agriculture

Odor-based test accurately distinguishes hard-to-detect cancers

World Food Safety Day 2021: An Interview with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Global land-use changes are creating “hot spots” favorable for new coronaviruses

Each city has its own exclusive microbiome, finds study

Worm cells sense metabolism changes to stimulate their defense against pathogens

Tracking Green Sahara using fossil plant molecules

Novel drug is highly effective in preventing severe COVID-19 in mice

Digital tool predicts protein stability in a cheaper, safer, and faster way

New wiki promotes development of innovative saliva-based diagnostic tests and customized treatment

New plasmofluidic chip could accelerate diagnosis during current and future pandemics

Neutralizing antibodies are produced after SARS-CoV-2 infection

New method helps tests large groups for SARS-CoV-2 infection

Convergence science are needed to prevent plant disease outbreaks

New projections can help support COVID-19 patients experiencing homelessness

Researchers discover canine coronavirus in East Malaysia

Study shows that Bubonic Plague had a long-term impact on immune gene expression

New study assesses total economic impact of human genomics

System Performance Qualification - Removing Uncertainty from Your Results

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