The urgent need for tests and therapeutics has brought companies together and pushed researchers to work at breakneck speeds. Author: Diana Kwon The Scientist In mid-January, as cases of a mysterious illness climbed in China and began to appear in other parts of the world, Alex Zhavoronkov realized that this outbreak was becoming a major public health […]
Read MoreBy Michael Irving News Atlas The research was published in the journal Nature. The human X chromosome has been completely sequenced from end to end for the first time As close as we’ve gotten to sequencing the entire human genome, there are still a few gaps. But now geneticists have plugged a major one in a […]
Read MoreAuthor: Matt O’Connor Cardiovascular Business Unresponsive patients infected with COVID-19 have a better chance of regaining consciousness than previously assumed, according to new research published in the Annals of Neurology. Massachusetts General Hospital doctors performed standard brain imaging tests and resting-state functional MRI in a 47-year-old man who slipped between coma and minimal consciousness for weeks. […]
Read MoreBy Elissa Nunez and Sony Salzman ABC News The market for glass is relatively fixed and prone to shocks. Even though many potential COVID-19 vaccines require different pharmaceutical ingredients and processes, drugmakers the world over have found themselves racing to acquire a key ingredient without which they can’t distribute their live-saving drugs: glass. With at least […]
Read MoreAuthor: Michael Walter Cardiovascular Business News Infective endocarditis is a relatively rare complication of TAVR, but the infection can be fatal when it does strike. The authors of a new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology assessed data from more than 7,000 TAVR patients, tracking incidents of infective endocarditis to glean as […]
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