Binding to surface sugars enhances omicron variant's cell attachment, researchers discover
Researchers at Umeå University have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 variant omicron has developed a stronger binding to human ...
A hidden strategy: How SARS-CoV-2 uses fibrinogen to evade the immune system
As scientists, we often think we understand a virus—its structure, its tricks, the way it moves through the body. But every ...
Q&A: Canada slowest in reporting bird flu at 618 days—but past COVID response shows potential for improvement
The global average for countries to report genetic information about bird flu, crucial to tracking and preventing a human ...
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DNA methylation changes during acute COVID-19 are associated with long-term transcriptional dysregulation in patients’ airway epithelial cells
Concurrent analysis of whole-genome DNA methylation and single-cell RNA sequencing data from COVID-19 patients and controls ...
Dr. Francis Collins Led the NIH. Now, He Fears for the Future of Science
D r. Francis Collins led the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest funder of biomedical research, ...
The Scientist14d
Viruses That Mimic Human Proteins May Be More Common than Previously Thought
A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...
Scientific American15d
Four Ways the COVID-Causing Virus Changed Science
Kei Sato was looking for his next big challenge five years ago when it smacked him — and the world — in the face. The ...
KYUK18d
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse -- and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
Scientific American19d
The Next Flu Pandemic Could Be Worse Than Covid If We Don't Heed History
COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.
Independent Online26d
SARS tax refund scam: thousands lost as fraudsters target South African taxpayers
SCORES of taxpayers have come forward claiming to be victims of an alleged scam where their refunds from the taxman ended up in bogus accounts opened using their details. In the past four weeks ...
richest26d
SARS lies in wait for returning expats
However, tax experts caution that the South African Revenue Service (SARS) is closely monitoring these returnees’ tax affairs. Many expats mistakenly believed that leaving the country ...