Doctors have started testing the world’s first mRNA lung cancer vaccine in patients. This vaccine, known as BNT116 and made by BioNTech, is being trialed in 34 research sites across seven countries: the UK, US, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain, and Turkey.
Memory loss and attention deficit are common in people who have survived severe COVID-19. These and other cognitive impairments have also been seen in mild cases more than 18 months after infection, according to a study by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil.
Researchers at the University of Malta have found a possible reason for the ongoing and often debilitating symptoms experienced by long COVID-19 patients.
The ASTAR Infectious Diseases Labs (ASTAR ID Labs) and the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) researchers have published a study in the Journal of Medical Virology, that shows that the extended inflammation observed in COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized is reduced to healthy levels within two years of the first infection.
The University of Queensland researchers found that viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain cells to fuse, leading to chronic neurological symptoms.
A team of researchers from Baidu Research recently developed an AI algorithm that can quickly design highly stable COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sequences, even when they were previously unattainable. The algorithm, called LinearDesign, represents a significant breakthrough in both stability and efficacy for vaccine sequences, achieving a 128-fold increase in the COVID-19 vaccine’s antibody response.
The COVID-19 pandemic has killed around 7 million people worldwide (1.1 million in the United States) and made many more people sick. Vaccines and antiviral treatments helped save many lives and reduce sickness.
Recently, a team of Japanese researchers has identified the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron XBB.1.5 variant prevalent in the Western hemisphere, which has high transmissibility and infectivity, and is a cause of concern for public health.
During the pandemic, medical doctors and researchers noticed that children and adolescents infected with COVID-19 became less ill than adults. A possible explanation for this is that children already had a prior level of immunity to COVID-19 provided by memory T cells generated by common colds.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, child and adolescent mortality rates in the United States have increased by 20%, the largest increase in at least 50 years.
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