Long Covid: People who are fully vaccinated apparently have a substantially lower risk of developing long Covid than unvaccinated people, even when they contract SARSCoV2, according to a British study statnews.com/2021/09/01/vac…

"More Than 80 Percent of Seniors Are Vaccinated. That’s ‘Not Safe Enough.’" by BY PAULA SPAN via NYT ift.tt/2WQPvGP

Great work on #PancreaticCancer from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory cshl.edu/why-pancreatic…

Cells usually have multiple solutions for fixing problems, but cancer cells often depend on just one. Prof Christopher Vakoc discovered that acute myeloid leukemia did this, and developed a drug that shut down the remaining pathway, killing only the cancer cells cshl.edu/when-cancer-ce…

HHMI News: We are proud to announce our 33 new #HHMIInvestigators. These individuals have the potential to make transformative discoveries over time and we look forward to seeing where their ideas lead them. bit.ly/3AE4OBs

"David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won this year’s #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for their research on the ion channels involved in perceiving heat, cold, pain, and touch. the-scientist.com/news-opinion/d…

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”

Boosters are most likely on the way for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.The federal govt is expected to take a significant step this week toward offering boosters to a much wider range of people. Advisers to the FDA meet on Thursday & Friday nytimes.com/live/2021/10/1…

Vaccines based on messenger mRNA technology were in development long before SARSCoV2 spawned a global pandemic. But the pandemic has hugely accelerated the same approach against other infectious diseases, which range from malaria to HIV, Ebola & the flu chemistryworld.com/features/mrna-…

Possible explanation for cerebral Covid & cerebral #LongCovid: New study reveals SARSCoV2-infected brain endothelial cells undergo apoptosis—programmed cell death—due to a series of molecular events that are possibly at the root of cerebral Covid & #LongCovid symptoms ↓

"Pfizer Says Its Antiviral Pill Is Highly Effective in Treating Covid" by BY REBECCA ROBBINS via NYT ift.tt/3nZa1i6

Scientists identify 2nd HIV patient whose body appears to have rid itself of the virus. Dr. Xu Yu in Boston is studying patients called "elite controllers" whose immune systems suppress HIV. Now, the so-called Esperanza Patient who doesn't require HIV meds medicalxpress.com/news/2021-11-s…

The new variant poses a far graver threat at the collective level than the individual one—the kind of test that the U.S. has repeatedly failed Ed Yong is not here The Atlantic theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Omicron now accounts for more than 99.5 percent of new infections in the United States, according to estimates from the CDC. Scientists have been working overtime to study this variant. Here's what they've learned so far. nyti.ms/3fSXSYi

From virologists who've studied the evolution of coronaviruses: "We Study virus evolution. Here’s where we think the coronavirus is going." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

An FDA panel is trying to figure out if there is enough time to revamp Covid vaccines by Fall. The hope is to have a vaccine that works well against all variants — if that's possible nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/…

The New York City Health Department announced that the West Nile virus had been detected in two people as well as in a “record number” of infected mosquitoes throughout the city. Here’s what to know: nyti.ms/3QyqNBw

Direct observations are confirming computer modeling predictions of rising sea levels, a result of the massive Greenland ice melt. Melting glaciers & ice sheets pose a threat to coastal communities globally. New analysis of high-resolution satellite data phys.org/news/2022-09-s…

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo for his study into human evolution using ancient DNA newscientist.com/article/234060…

Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger share the 2022 Nobel prize in physics for their work pioneering the field of quantum information newscientist.com/article/234085…