#Pathogen

Okay, I'm seeing a lot of "the end is nigh"-type posts as well as a lot of people misunderstanding this story, so let's talk about "pandemic potential" for #influenza viruseshttps://www.bbc.com/news/health-532187
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I was recently asked what I would like to see come out of SARS-CoV-2/covid origins investigations.I would like to know that, the next time a pandemic like this occurs, the
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Monday Morning ConsultA pulmonologist colleague shows you this CT chest (photo).Who is the host?What is the syndrome?What is the risk factor?What is the pathogen?Details and MCQ later..... 70M. CLL. ILD.
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What is an mRNA vaccine? One that instructs the human host cell to make isolated viral proteins (not the whole virus just a surface protein!) so the immune system learns
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We have launched our #AgriFoodBecause celebration!!! We will give a bit of an introduction to our group, @SCIupdate and hear stories behind the winner photos! #plantsci The first speaker is
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Why some get sicker than others, does this apply to COVID_19? 'Children with recurrent Strep infections had smaller immune structures crucial to the development of antibodies in the Tonsils than
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Read this story and weep. This, after masks, is the biggest failure—both scientific and communication—of the pandemic in Western nations: the airborne nature of the pathogen. CDC changed this guidance
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So a new study claims #SARSCoV2 can integrate into human DNA genome. Semi-doubtful. David Baltimore, a virologist who won the Nobel Prize, describes the findings as “unexpected” & notes
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Daily reminder:— Coronavirus main host is a bat— Bats are not found in Wuhan/Hubei region— Bats would have been hibernating around time of the outbreak— COVID19 is extremely susceptible to
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As a parent of 3 teens whose NJ public schooling was interrupted starting mid-March and had to do online learning, and as someone who grew up in Vietnam at the
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Infectious dose is a possible explanation but I don’t think it’s a very likely one, for a couple reasons. The most important being that identical twins are not genetically identical!https://twitter.com/drzoehyde/status/13431181490722447
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Over the last weeks, a substantial amount of new evidence has become available about immunity to #SARSCoV2. This information can be difficult to process and integrate. As such I felt
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@washingtonpost Opinion article by their editorial board."there are troubling questions in China that must be examined, including whether the coronavirus was inadvertently spread in an accident or spill from the
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1/11 Time to embrace Professional Nursery-Raisers?. When it comes to horticultural vegetable growing nursery management is the most critical component determining the degree of success of any vegetable farming venture.
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Really happy to finally share results from my postdoc work in the Zipfel lab: how plants respond to a variety of different elicitors and what we can learn from it1/12https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.30.404566v1
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A note on lungs and clotting. Fibrin is an essential part of alveolar damage because whilst it impairs gas exchange it is also vita as a scaffold for tissue repair.
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