000 teenagers receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have presented with rare heart inflammation cases; these cases have shown to be mild and resolve on their own. There is a much higher risk of heart issues from COVID-19 itself than from the vaccine....
Type 1 ("viral"; alpha- and beta-interferon). Induced directly in almost all cells by virus DNA/RNA acting on Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and RNA helicases. They promote viral resistance. Mice lacking Type 1 interferons are highly susceptible to virus infections. Alpha and beta have opposite...
It is true that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine iscreated, in part, by growing a modified virus in cells originally derived from embryonic kidney tissue sourced from an abortion performed in the 1970s. Crucially, however, the vaccine does not "contain" this cellular material. The viral molec...
How does DNA polymerase facilitate the PCR reaction? PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction is the in-vitro method of making multiple copies of a DNA sequence. The three main phases of PCR are Denaturation, Annealing, and Elongation. Answer and Explanation: 1 Become a Study.com member to unlock this...
Explore the differences between animal, plant, and bacterial cells using anonline interactive tool. Have students locate where the DNA lives in each type of cell. (20 minutes) Show thevideo on DNA extraction from strawberriesand discuss, making sure everyone understands the protocol (10 minutes) ...
And we must have all had it hammered into us the importance of good communication skills to achieve this. The doctor of tomorrow should be able to "communicate effectively with individuals regardless of their social, cultural or ethnic backgrounds, or their disabilities," according to th...
[on the RNA Covid vaccines]” is an “indirect connection” that is not “an impediment to the faithful receiving these vaccines in good conscience.” A Greek Archbishop in Australia requested that his country develop the Covid-19 vaccineethicallyand that itnot be mandatory, obviously implicitly...
The pathogenesis of severe COVID-19 reflects an inefficient immune reaction to SARS-CoV-2. Here we analyze, at the single cell level, plasmablasts egressed into the blood to study the dynamics of adaptive immune response in COVID-19 patients requiring intensive care. Before seroconversion in re...
Macrophages have long been considered as particularly plastic cells. However, recent work combining fate mapping, single-cell transcriptomics and epigenetics has undermined the macrophage plasticity dogma. Here, we discuss recent studies that have carefu
Identification of gene coexpression signatures in inflamed IBD tissue Inflamed tissue from patients with IBD is commonly resected when either medical therapies have failed, when patients opt for elective surgery or when acute complications require emergency surgery. We used such tissues (referred to as...