A study suggests that a viral infection such as influenza and SARS/CoV-2 can set off an inflammatory cascade that “wakes up” the sleeping cancer cells located in distant organs such as lungs and bone marrow, leading them to proliferate
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NIV should quickly make genome data available in a public database so that researchers in India and elsewhere can analyse
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NIV researchers prioritising paper publication over free and immediate access to genome sequence data and other vital information was once
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While vaccination decreases the severity of acute COVID-19 and the rate of hospitalisation and death, it does not alter the
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The paper published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents was withdrawn because of concerns about the ethical approval for the research.
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Three years after the interim data were posted as a preprint, Bharat Biotech and ICMR are yet to publish any
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Of the 600 participants studied, 524 (87.3%) had taken only one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while the remaining 76
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If the most glaring limitation of the study is the lack of a control group, the absence of data on
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Choosing priority pathogens for wastewater surveillance should be based not just on feasibility of the detection but also on the
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The rapidly increasing spread of the JN.1 variant across the globe has led to the prevalence of this variant, a descendent of
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Nearly four years after the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus emerged in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province in China, resulting in
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Researchers assessed the metabolite profile of individuals with Long COVID and found serotonin abundance is reduced both during acute COVID-19
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Virus can develop resistance against antivirals, while drugs that target the host cells to prevent virus infection can remain effective even when the virus evolves
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