A number of antiviral immune defenses are compromised among people who develop severe COVID-19, a new single-cell RNA sequencing analysis has found. Some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop severe disease marked by acute respiratory failure and possibly sepsis and death. While studies have highlighted the possible role of systemic inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19, the

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A German researcher thinks he knows what has caused some people to develop blood clots after receiving coronavirus vaccines. University of Greifswald hematologist Andreas Greinacher believes the reaction is linked to EDTA, a preservative found in the AstraZeneca vaccine. The AstraZeneca vaccine contains more than 1,000 proteins that have been derived from human proteins —

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he game-changing Oxford vaccination could get the go-ahead “just after Christmas”, a leading expert has said . John Bell, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University, stressed the data behind the jab is looking “better than ever”. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is examining the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. With an announcement from the MHRA eagerly anticipated, Prof Bell told

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Dr. Miguel Torres, of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), leads a new project that will receive €8 million in funding over 5 years, €1,380,000 of which will be directly managed at the CNIC Research into new endogenous mechanisms of tissue regeneration is an innovative research avenue in cardiac regeneration. This is the central

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