Health & Medicine

Bones Found In Japan Tell The Story Of The First Samurai From England 0
- Health & Medicine
- December 15, 2020
In 1931, a Japanese team found what was believed to be the burial site of Miura Anjin, the first Samurai from England. The skeletal was then reburied, and it was only almost nine decades later that scientists excavated the site again and analysed the remains with modern techniques.
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Scented Candles: Aromatherapy or Silent Killers?0
- Health & Medicine
- December 10, 2020
Odours can alter our mental and physical well-being. But could a burning candle also be a secret killer? An aroma in the air Ancient Egyptians often get credited for the invention of scented candles. However, we do not know their exact origins. There is some evidence that the first candles were made from whale fat
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Infection with Sars-CoV-2 Renders a Robust Antibody Response for at least Three Months 0
- Health & Medicine
- October 30, 2020
Antibodies are one of the most valuable tools of the immune system to fight foreign invaders. As expected from work with other coronaviruses, several studies have confirmed that, following infection with Sars-CoV-2, the immune system counteracts by producing antibodies against the spike protein, a molecule that the virus uses to dock itself to our cells
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Covid-19 Candidate Vaccines Pass Safety and Efficacy Tests 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- July 23, 2020
Two candidate vaccines (ChAdOx1 and Ad-5-nCoV) for Covid-19 have been shown to be safe and efficacious in humans, according to two studies published this week in The Lancet journal. Both vaccines are based on adenovirus vectors, DNA viruses that act as vehicles to carry SARS-CoV-2 proteins to the body, therefore eliciting a response against an
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The Molecules’ Marathon 0
- Health & Medicine
- July 16, 2020
The benefits of exercise are not a surprise, and most of us have a fair sense of individual fitness. A recent article published in the Cell Journal1 went a step further and investigated what happens to the body at a molecular level after physical activity. Researchers at Stanford School of Medicine examined the molecular responses
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Nearly Every Recovered Covid-19 Patient Has Antibodies Against the Virus 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- May 14, 2020
Most of the patients who recover from Covid-19 have antibodies against SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus that causes the disease, shows a study published in the pre-print server medXriv (yet to be peer-reviewed). Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine recruited 1,343 patients who had tested positive or had symptoms for Covid-19 in New York City
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