Vaccine extends life for patients with brain cancer

"This personalized immune therapy could be a game-changer for a disease this is so deadly and difficult to treat."

Susanne Pallo-Rochester • futurity
Dec. 8, 2022 ~5 min

Nurses' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination for their children are highly influenced by partisanship, a new study finds

Nurses who identify as Democrats have a significantly higher likelihood of having their children vaccinated against COVID-19 than those who identify as Republicans.

David Wiltse, Associate Professor of Political Science, South Dakota State University • conversation
Dec. 2, 2022 ~6 min


Twitter lifted its ban on COVID misinformation – research shows this is a grave risk to public health

A wealth of research on social media shows that COVID-19 misinformation is damaging to public health.

Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University • conversation
Dec. 1, 2022 ~6 min

More Republicans died than Democrats after COVID vaccines came out

The sharp divergence in excess death rates that emerged in the post-vaccine period "is pretty striking… and the magnitudes are quite large."

Yale • futurity
Nov. 22, 2022 ~6 min

Scientists uncovered the structure of the key protein for a future hepatitis C vaccine – here's how they did it

Using a Nobel Prize-winning technique called cryo-EM, researchers were able to identify potential areas on the hepatitis C virus that a vaccine could target.

Alba Torrents de la Peña, Postdoctoral Fellow in Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute • conversation
Nov. 22, 2022 ~7 min

Gene signature quickly predicts who’ll develop vaccine immunity

Research finds it's possible to predict vaccine immunity a week after it was administered. That could speed up vaccine development.

Krista Conger-Stanford • futurity
Nov. 21, 2022 ~9 min

COVID-19, RSV and the flu are straining health care systems - two epidemiologists explain what the 'triple threat' means for children

Respiratory viruses are hitting young children and infants particularly hard this fall and winter season, and experts don’t yet know exactly why.

Annette Regan, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of San Francisco • conversation
Nov. 18, 2022 ~10 min

Conspiracy-minded people were more likely to hesitate on COVID vax

New research shows that people who had a conspiracy mindset before the pandemic were more likely to believe fake info about COVID.

Michael Rozansky-Penn • futurity
Nov. 14, 2022 ~8 min


Why some Latinos remain wary of the COVID vaccine

A new study explains why some people in Latino communities have avoided the COVID vaccine—and what can be done to reverse the trend.

Amy McCaig-Rice University • futurity
Nov. 11, 2022 ~3 min

Key mutations make monkeypox stronger and smarter

Like COVID-19, mutations have allowed monkeypox to get smarter, spreading quickly and evading drugs. New research digs into key mutations.

Brian Consiglio-Missouri • futurity
Nov. 10, 2022 ~6 min

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