Infectious diseases
How COVID Rewires Our Brains
Health
New findings indicate that residual COVID-19 proteins lower brain cortisol and intensify immune reactions, shedding light on Long COVID’s neurological symptoms. This ...
Climate Change Could Make Fungi More Dangerous To Humans
Science
Higher environmental temperatures may trigger mutations in fungi that lead to increased infectivity, more aggressive growth or resistance to multiple anti-fungal medications. ...
COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds
Health
Even as national institutions struggle to coordinate meaningful trials for possible long COVID treatments, researchers continue to tally the damage. New findings ...
How Body Lice Could Rewrite the History of the Black Death
Health
New research indicates human body lice are highly efficient at spreading the plague, potentially reshaping our understanding of historical pandemics, including the ...
New Research Shows H5N1 Bird Flu Can Transmit Through Air
Health
Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated the airborne transmission of a new H5N1 virus strain in ferrets, marking a potential evolution of ...
Highly Pathogenic Bird Flu Identified in Dead Florida Dolphin
Health
A Florida bottlenose dolphin was found with avian influenza in a landmark case studied by University of Florida researchers and other agencies, ...
Structural basis of directional switching by the bacterial flagellum
Science
Berg, H. C. Bacterial behaviour. Nature 254, 389–392 (1975). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Berg, H. C. The rotary motor of ...
Prevalence of persistent SARS-CoV-2 in a large community surveillance study
Health
ONS-CIS This work contains statistical data from ONS, which is Crown Copyright. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work ...
A conserved interdomain microbial network underpins cadaver decomposition despite environmental variables
Science
Swift, M. J., Heal, O. W. & Anderson, J. M. Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems (Blackwell Scientific, 1979). Carter, D. O., Yellowlees, D. ...
How Covid still grips the UK
Health
Covid cases are “stabilising” at higher rates than before a pre-Christmas surge, according to new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) data, as ...
