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A nationwide study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that mRNA booster shots (either Pfizer ...

In Los Angeles County, ambulance crews are being told to conserve oxygen and to not take certain trauma and cardiac ...

As the omicron variant brings a new wave of uncertainty and fear, I can’t help reflecting back to March 2020, ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Solicitation is now open for U.S. small businesses ...

The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine ...

Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, will ...

After screening a large, diverse library of synthetic nanobodies, Sandia researchers identified and evaluated several potent nanobodies that can protect ...

As winter begins and the holidays are in full swing, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered another worrying phase. Emergence of ...

Scientists have demonstrated that modifying an enzyme produced by the bacterium that causes anthrax can protect mice from infection with ...

Leveraging ventilation and filtration has been an underutilized strategy for many residents throughout the pandemic because of the technical know-how ...

With all the focus on COVID-19, let’s not forget about rhinoviruses, influenza, RSV, and adenoviruses. With coronaviruses taking over our ...

A vaccinated person is less likely to get COVID in the first instance, is less contagious, and is contagious for ...

Last week, AstraZeneca’s chief executive officer said the company’s COVID vaccine may provide longer-lasting protection than mRNA vaccines like Pfizer’s, ...

A virus evolution expert explains what researchers know and what they don’t about the new coronavirus variant of concern. A ...

Charting changes in a pathogen’s genome yields clues about its past and hints about its future More than 250 million ...

Understanding the genetic basis of primary immunodeficiency disorders is essential for their diagnosis, prognosis, and the development of precision therapeutics. ...

The findings point to the need for mRNA-1273 booster vaccination to sustain high-level and rapid protection in the lung and ...

The B-SURE (Biomanufacturing: Survival, Utility, and Reliability beyond Earth) program will leverage biological processes in resource limited environments. Imagine you ...

‘Plague sceptics’ are wrong to underestimate the devastating impact that bubonic plague had in the 6th– 8th centuries CE, argues a ...

Even with the availability of the COVID-19 vaccine to significantly reduce the chances of severe illness and hospitalizations, there are ...