Category: Research
Long Covid: Microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs into the blood vessels
A team of researchers based at five centres across Ontario have zeroed in on a microscopic abnormality in the way oxygen moves from the lungs and into the blood vessels of long COVID patients in their trial. More...
Nature: Neurotoxic amyloidogenic peptides in the proteome of SARS-COV2
Following the hypothesis that some neurological symptoms of COVID-19 may also follow an amyloid etiology we identiļ¬ed two peptides from the SARSCoV-2 proteome that self-assemble into amyloid assemblies. More...
UK: More than 1,000 cases of Monkeypox in Britain
Up to 26 June 2022 there were 1,076 laboratory confirmed cases in the UK. More...
Preprint: BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 substantially escape neutralizing antibodies
These data show that the BA.2.12.1, BA.4, and BA.5 subvariants substantially escape neutralizing antibodies induced by both vaccination and infection. More...
Preprint: Covid-19 infection leading to bone loss
We assessed the bone mineral density (BMD) of hospitalized COVID-19 patients at diagnosis and at follow-up visits. More...
Germany: BA.5 now dominant with 50% of sequences
RKI: “The proportion of the omicron subline BA.5 was 50% in week 23, it has become the dominant variant. More...
Preprint: Monkeypox has far more mutations than expected
“Researchers found the current Monkeypox strain diverges from the original strain by 50 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and several mutations made the virus more transmissible.” More...
Scotland: One person in twenty infected with Covid-19
The latest report from the Office of National Statistics shows a big increase in COVID-19 cases across the four nations of the UK, and particularly in Scotland. More...
UK ONS: Large increase in reinfections since Omicron
ONS: “There has been a large increase in the rates for all re-infections and re-infections with a high viral load since the Omicron variants became most common.” More...
Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 infection with Tremor, Ataxia and Cognitive Deficit – PASC-TAC
“A notable neurologic phenotype of PASC with a characteristic combination of tremor, ataxia, and cognitive deficits (PASC-TAC) was observed in ~7% of participants without a prior neurologic history of these symptoms. More...