A law professor shared on Twitter the pieces of an ingenious cheating system involving pens used by one of her students, garnering enough attention that the student revealed how he accomplished his feat. Cheating returned to the news during the pandemic as remote learning made it easy for students to look up answers on exams. However, the … Read more
Summary: A new meta-analysis focuses on what we know, and what we don’t know about what’s good and bad for our health. Source: IHME A new set of meta-analyses clarifies the often complex and contradictory health guidance linking certain diets, behaviors, and conditions to illness. The analyses, conducted by researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and … Read more
This image shows the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s main protease, Mpro, and two strands of a human protein, called NEMO. One NEMO strand (blue) has been cut by Mpro, and the other NEMO strand (red) is in the process of being cut by Mpro. Without NEMO, an immune system is slower to respond to increasing viral loads … Read more
Summary: SARS_CoV_2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 infects and replicates in astrocytes, reducing neural viability. Source: FAPESP A Brazilian study published in the journal PNAS describes some of the effects infection by SARS-CoV-2 can have on the central nervous system. A preliminary version (not yet peer-reviewed) posted in 2020 was one of the first to show that … Read more
CNN — Chronic sleep deprivation in a small group of healthy adults increased production of immune cells linked to inflammation while also altering the immune cells’ DNA, a new study found. “Not only were the number of immune cells elevated, but they may be wired and programmed in a different way at the end of … Read more
Rising demand for the monkeypox vaccine caused the appointment system in New York City to crash, one of many places where supplies are nearly as exhausted as they come. City health officials acknowledged frustration over limited supplies of the vaccine and vowed to build a “stable deployment infrastructure” as vaccine supplies increase. Infections have now … Read more