Health care workers conducting a TB control awareness rally in Vijayawada. File | Photo Credit: K.V.S Giri Tuberculosis (TB) is a treatable disease, but drug resistance is now a major public health concern exacerbated by the emergence of multi and extensively drug-resistant TB. India has the highest burden of Multi-Drug Resistant-TB (MDR-TB) bacteria with the … Read more
July 12, 2022 – Most people probably know facial recognition as the thing that unlocks your smartphone. But this technology could also be used as a tool in the fight against cancer, according to a new study. A team of researchers from University College London and the University of California, San Diego have developed an … Read more
They analysed how quickly mutations occur in species with different life expectancies. They looked at DNA from a cat, black and white colobus, dog, ferret, giraffe, horse, human, lion, mouse, naked mole rat, rabbit, rat, ring-tailed lemur and a tiger. Source link
An improved jab that will be more effective against variants can be made quickly, says Oxford-AstraZeneca. Source link
Staying home as much as possible and away from other people through the spring could save some 30,000 lives, according to a model from the IHME The E484K mutation is already causing misery in Manaus, Brazil, a city of 2 million people that sits in the Amazon rainforest. Brazil, like the U.S., fell … Read more
The changes seen may help the virus evade parts of the immune system. Source link
Scientists are rushing to find out more about mutations in a variant of coronavirus causing concern. Source link
Sept. 25, 2020 — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have struggled to find out why some people who get COVID-19 develop severe disease, and others are infected but don’t notice symptoms. Now, new research from the National Institutes of Health and other institutions suggests that some people have antibodies that are … Read more