What Actually Happens When COVID-19 Vaccines Enter the Body?
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the way people live around the world. As of October 14, 2021, more than 716,000…
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“Twindemic” Threat: Ominous Flu Season Paired With COVID – What You Need To Know About Vaccination
As winter looms and hospitals across the U.S. continue to be deluged with severe cases of COVID-19, flu season presents a particularly ominous threat this…
What Is Causing All These New Coronavirus Variants? Is It the COVID–19 Vaccines?
Massive numbers of new COVID–19 infections are the main driver of new coronavirus variants. The rise of coronavirus variants has highlighted the huge influence evolutionary…
SARS-CoV-2 Nanobodies Are Remarkably Active Against Mutations Found in COVID Variants – Including Delta
Near-Atomic Look at Three Ways To Thwart SARS-CoV-2 Variants SARS-CoV-2 nanobodies—microscopic molecules developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine that neutralize the virus…
Oral Vaccines Sometimes Fail in Resource-Poor Countries – New Research Helps Explain Why
A chronic gut disorder that occurs in regions with poor sanitation disrupts intestinal immune responses and impairs oral vaccine effectiveness in a mouse model of…
Researchers Shocked to Discover Bacterial Parasites Behind Rise of “Superbugs”
For the first time ever, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine discovered that phages — tiny viruses that attack bacteria — are…
Older Men With Erectile Dysfunction Having More Sex Than Ever During COVID-19 Pandemic
When Pandemic Hit, Some People Wanted More Sexual Activity It is widely assumed that Americans’ sexual activity took a nosedive during the early chaotic months…
Higher Alcohol Content Craft Beer Popularity Growing As Overall Beer Consumption Down
Americans are consuming more craft beer with higher alcohol content but are drinking less beer by volume, according to a new analysis led by epidemiologists…
Revolutionary Self-Aware Materials Build the Foundation for Living Structures
New research in Nano Energy introduces revolutionary scalable material that senses and powers itself. From the biggest bridges to the smallest medical implants, sensors are…
Ultra-Low Doses of Inhaled Nanobodies Prevents and Treats Severe COVID-19 in Hamsters
In a paper published today (May 26, 2021) in Science Advances, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine showed that inhalable nanobodies targeting…
No Lasting Benefit to Surgically Placed Tubes Over Antibiotics for Childhood Ear Infections
There is no long-term benefit to surgically placing tympanostomy tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections during the…
82% of People Hospitalized With COVID-19 Develop Neurological Problems
Patients with clinically diagnosed neurological symptoms associated with COVID-19 are six times more likely to die in the hospital than those without the neurological complications,…
Rare Genetic Neurological Disease Caused by Mutations in Protein That Controls RNA Metabolism
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, an international group of collaborators led by researchers at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh have identified a…
Chemicals in Areas Surrounding Tumors Subvert the Immune System and Enable Cancer to Evade Attack
Insight About Tumor Microenvironment Could Boost Cancer Immunotherapy A paper published today (February 15, 2021) in Nature shows how chemicals in the areas surrounding tumors…
Innovative Experiment Takes “Snapshots” of Light, Stops Light, Uses Light to Change Properties of Matter
Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje…
Engineers Build Chemically Driven Wheels That “Morph” Into Gears to Perform Mechanical Work
Shifting Gears Toward Chemical Machines The gear is one of the oldest mechanical tools in human history1 and led to machines ranging from early irrigation…
Method Invented to “Sketch” Quantum Devices With Focused Electrons
Technique is 10,000 faster than previous methods, and can create active nanostructured gates directly below two-dimensional materials such as graphene. It has long been a…
Llama Nanobodies Could Be a Powerful New Weapon Against COVID-19
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine describe, in the journal Science, a new method to extract tiny but extremely powerful SARS-CoV-2 antibody…