Health & Medicine

Scented Candles: Aromatherapy or Silent Killers?

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...

Infection with Sars-CoV-2 Renders a Robust Antibody Response for at least Three Months

Antibodies are one of the most valuable tools of the immune system to fight foreign invaders. As expected from work with other coronaviruses, several...

Covid-19 Candidate Vaccines Pass Safety and Efficacy Tests

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...

The Molecules’ Marathon

The benefits of exercise are not a surprise, and most of us have a fair sense of individual fitness. A recent article published in...

Nearly Every Recovered Covid-19 Patient Has Antibodies Against the Virus

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...

Are Viruses Alive?

Now that we are all tuned into virus talk, it may be a good idea to shed new light on an old debate. Arguments...

Study Reveals Geographic Differences in the SARS-CoV-2 Genomes

Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals several variations between the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from Italy, India, Nepal and USA, and the SARS-CoV-2 originated from Wuhan....

Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Does Not Occur in Rhesus Monkeys

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 170,000 cases of infection worldwide, and its death toll continues to rise. Meanwhile,...

Combating Antibiotic Resistance With a Deep Learning Algorithm 

Antibiotics have become a familiar resource in households. We use them to treat infections and get cured eventually. However, with time, the infection-causing bacteria...

The Strange Case of the Man Who Didn’t Drink Alcohol But Often Appeared Drunk

Patient X had been a healthy man. He was in his forties, with no medical or psychiatric episodes, and lived a normal life, until...