Immune cells prevent lung healing after viral infection
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The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how viral infections can cause long-lasting effects - a condition called long COVID. Also known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, long COVID has left a devastating trail of people who continue to live with long-term debilitation after infection.
Newly discovered antibody protects against all COVID-19 variants
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As part of a new study on hybrid immunity to the virus, the large, multi-institution research team led by The University of Texas at Austin discovered and isolated a broadly neutralizing plasma antibody, called SC27, from a single patient.
New pharmaceutically active substances from billions of newly combined molecules
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The bottleneck in the development of new molecular therapies is the limited number of new active substances that can be found using current techniques. A method developed in the 2000s at Harvard and ETH Zurich promises to provide a remedy: DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DEL).
Bayer and NextRNA Therapeutics enter strategic collaboration to develop small molecules targeting long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in oncology
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Pfizer launches PfizerForAll™, a digital platform that helps simplify access to healthcare
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A discovery to set your heart a-knocking
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Common salt activates anti-tumor cells
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In the past, cancer was usually a death sentence, but research has made considerable progress in recent decades and has significantly increased the survival time with a high quality of life for many types of cancer.
Game-changing needle-free COVID-19 intranasal vaccine
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New Griffith University research, published in Nature Communications, has been testing the efficacy of delivering a COVID-19 vaccine via the nasal passages.
Professor Suresh Mahalingam from Griffith's Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics has been working on this research for the past four years.
Deadly sea snail toxin could be key to making better medicines
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A multinational research team led by University of Utah scientists has identified a component within the venom of a deadly marine cone snail, the geography cone, that mimics a human hormone called somatostatin, which regulates the levels of blood sugar and various hormones in the body.
AI can speed up drug development
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In drug development, experimental methods are often used to determine the three-dimensional structures of target proteins and to understand how molecules bind to them.