MEDICINE & HEALTHThe production of huge numbers of muscle stem cells opens the development of stem cell-based treatments for muscle damage due to injury, disease or illness.
Experts say that a vaccine that could prevent hospitalization, reduce mortality, and halt the spread of asymptomatic infections holds the key to finally halting and containing COVID-19.
According to MIT research, ultrasound scans, the machines used to monitor the growth of a fetus inside a mother's womb, can destroy coronavirus cells by forcing the virus's surface to tear apart and implode.
Roughly seventy-five percent of people who died of COVID-19 are found to have harbored the SARS-CoV-2 virus in their hearts, according to the most detailed study of cardiac tissue to date.
A preprint study confirms the first confirmed case of a baby born with COVID-19 antibodies after the mother gets vaccinated when she was 36 weeks pregnant.
After a little over a year of expedited research, financial hardship and over 500K deaths in the US, we're finally starting to see the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. But while the widespread rollout of vaccines has been encouraging, there are many additional steps we will have to take for the next few months, possibly years, to stop the spread of the virus.
Researchers presented lab-grown tear glands using stem cells, simulating the actual ones. In the Netherlands, functional tear glands unattached to the eyes or emotions are stirring in their own real-life drama.
Researchers have isolated Candida Auris, a fungus found in clinics, hospitals, and medical institutions that causes a severe infection of the gut, bloodstream, and internal organs, and it has just been found in nature.