Viral infections like RSV, flu and COVID have a Southern California county declaring a pediatric health emergency. He’s far from alone

California’s Orange County has declared a health emergency due to an overwhelming increase in respiratory illnesses that is pushing children’s hospitals to the brink. Skyrocketing numbers of young patients are seeking emergency room care at area children’s hospitals for RSV, flu, flu-like illnesses and, to a lesser extent, COVID, the OC Health Care Agency said […]

Are TikTok Videos Making Eating Disorders Go Viral?

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Are TikTok’s food and diet trends good or bad for viewers? The popular social media app has millions of users and millions of content offers. According to a study from the University of Vermont, billions of views are given to diet and weight content. Their analysis of social media platform content […]

A novel approach for viral genomic surveillance

In a recent study published on the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States explored a novel technique to improve representation in viral genomic surveillance. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) evaded detection in the early phases of transmission due to a lack of regular viral genomic surveillance, allowing the virus to proliferate […]

Candel Therapeutics and UPenn Collaborate on the Development of Viral/CAR-T Combination Therapy

Credit: Dr_Microbe/Getty Images Candel Therapeutics, a clinical-stage developer of viral immunotherapies, announced Wednesday that it will collaborate with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Center for Cellular Immunotherapy to study the efficacy of using viral immunotherapies to help enhance the effects of cell UPenn CAR-T. therapies in solid tumor models. The research will evaluate […]

The effect of vaccination-induced immunity on the viral loads of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers analyzed nationwide vaccination data and cycle cut-off data from four laboratories in Israel that perform quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). tests to determine the effect of vaccination-induced immunity on the viral loads of the Omicron variant of […]

The rise of Rust, the ‘viral’ secure programming language that is taking over technology

These types of vulnerabilities are not just esoteric software bugs. Research and auditing have repeatedly found that they make up the majority of all software vulnerabilities. So while you can still make mistakes and create security flaws while programming in Rust, the opportunity to eliminate security vulnerabilities from memory is significant. “Memory security issues are […]