I used to receive messages like this from my ex-boyfriend: “Did we have a joke about flamingos?” And: “How did I get the scar on my hand?” They weren’t invitations for a trip down memory lane; he was asking because he couldn’t remember. “We liked flamingos for their flamboyance,” I said. “The scar is from…
A presentation at this year’s European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, will discuss the growing evidence that the beta SARS-CoV-2 variant first identified in South Africa is leading to more severe disease in people living with HIV, and that failure to clear SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with…
IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture have received a grant from USDA NIFA to study food loss and waste reduction at the consumer-grocery retailer interface. Study results… view more Credit: Image by Shutterstock. Research suggests that 40% of food produced in the U.S. is lost or wasted, while approximately one in eight…
It is believed to be involved in the development of chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases, to trigger diabetes, to be responsible for obesity, even neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s could have their causes here – not to mention depressions and autistic disorders. We are talking about the microbiome – the vast collection of…
IMAGE: Researchers analyzed almost 30,000 RT-PCR tests on swabs from 4,269 players in 2020: 11.7% turned out positive. The rate was the same as among front-line health workers… view more Credit: Bruno Gualano By Karina Toledo | Agência FAPESP* – A study conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil shows that the incidence…
IMAGE: Millions of Americans lack adequate access to healthy food. Expanding SNAP benefits and eligibility could eliminate food insecurity in the United States, suggests University of Illinois professor Craig Gundersen. view more Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. – Food insecurity is a major problem in the U.S., and it worsened during the…
IMAGE: Choroid plexus of mouse neonates. Blue: cell nuclei, green: phalloidin-actin, red: fluorochrome. view more Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants are particularly susceptible to this type of infection; they develop meningitis 30 times more often than the general population. Group B…
The Delta variant was detected for the first time in India in October 2020 and has since spread throughout the world. It is now dominant in many countries and regions (India, the UK, Portugal, Russia, etc.) and is predicted to be the most prevalent variant in Europe within weeks or months. Epidemiological studies have shown…
A survey offered to transgender and nonbinary people across six continents and in thirteen languages shows that during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many faced reduced access to gender-affirming resources, and this reduction was linked to poorer mental health. Brooke Jarrett of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, and…
IMAGE: Artistic rendering of dying cells protecting their neighbors to maintain tissue integrity. Holes in epithelium created by uncoordinated cell death are shown in purple. view more Credit: © Institut Pasteur / Le?o Valon et Romain Levayer To enable tissue renewal, human tissues constantly eliminate millions of cells, without jeopardizing tissue integrity, form and connectivity. The…