Health authorities and scientists say they are now racing to study BA.2.86, a new strain of the virus that causes COVID-19, after the highly mutated variant was spotted spreading in multiple countries around the world and at least four different U.S. states....
Beijing imposed a partial lockdown Wednesday after about a dozen new Covid-19 cases were detected, including two cases of the more transmissible variant originally discovered in the United Kingdom. Quick Takes are condensed versions of China-related stories for fast news you can...
New variants from around the world have been identified in India. There is the concern of the ‘double mutant’ in India that has also now been identified in San Francisco. Anecdotally, I know of several people in India that have tested negative for Covid, but who have all the clinical f...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As communities across the U.S. have struggled to cope with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have focused on the lack of widespread testing as a major barrier to safely reopening the country. As progress has been made on this front, concern has...
The mRNA COVID vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna have somewhere between effectiveness against symptomatic COVID illness, providing about nines of safety against that risk, and over effectiveness against severe illness, thus adding at least nines of safety in this regard. A slight variant of the ...
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"This ranged from the role of the right-wing media and false COVID-related information appearing on the web, to the use of false social media accounts and bots being employed to boost and promote the anti-vax/anti-government movement. ...
I'm using a Chrome Store theme, so it doesn't fit 100% perfect on Edge ... but I thought it was cool to have this feature enabled on Canary ... now waiting...
calculated using the coloc package (v5.1.0;https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/coloc/)60. We focused on the colocalizations when coloc suggested a plausible posterior probability that both PSC and a tissue from GTEx_v8 are associated and share a single functional variant (PP4 > ...
The funding for ROSALIND’s platform came through the RADx Tech arm of the initiative, which is looking to encourage development, validation and commercialization of COVID-19 tests and has a budget of $500 million. There are three other arms of RADx—Unde...