Immunity against the omicron coronavirus variant fades quickly after a second and third dose of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to peer reviewed research published in JAMA Network Open on Friday. Levels of omicron-specific “neutralizing” antibodies, which can target the virus and stop it from replicating, reduce rapidly after[Read More…]

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer has voluntarily recalled a blood pressure medication for the second time in a month. Pfizer is recalling five lots of blood pressure medicine Accupril because of elevated levels of a N-nitroso-quinapril, a compound known as a nitrosamine, the company said in a news release posted Friday on the[Read More…]

A new study of women who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic showed that the amount of women who developed gestational diabetes increased by almost 40 percent after the onset of the virus and the resulting lockdown. The study was presented at the annual conference of the American College of[Read More…]

Americans over 60 years old should not take a daily dose of aspirin to ward off a first heart attack or stroke, a panel of top doctors said today in a deviation from standard guidance. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), which is comprised of 17 top experts from[Read More…]

Published this week in the journal Royal Society Open Science, a paper concludes some fungi use electrical impulses to share and process information internally. When signal activity spikes, it creates intricate patterns that may function like words in human speech. It is estimated fungi vocabulary could consist of about 50[Read More…]

The Chinese University of Hong Kong recently created a brown, slimy, magnetic robot known as the ‘Reconfigurable Magnetic Slime Robot.’ A study about this innovation was initially published on March 2 in the peer-reviewed journal Advanced Functional Materials. According to the study, this slime-bot can access restricted spaces and provide[Read More…]

According to a study conducted in the UK, dogs fed a vegan diet could be less likely to get sick than their meat-fed counterparts. The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Winchester in the United Kingdom to help clarify the potential health effects of different dog diets,[Read More…]

NASA and SpaceX launched the first mission with an all-private crew to the International Space Station on Friday, sending a former NASA astronaut and three paying customers aboard a Crew Dragon capsule lifted by a Falcon 9 rocket. The crew finished the first leg of its journey and docked at[Read More…]

A team of MIT scientists behind the biotech firm Frequency Therapeutics say they have developed a new type of regenerative therapy that can reverse hearing loss, without the need of hearing aids or cochlear implants. By programming special kinds of human cells called progenitor cells, the team discovered a new[Read More…]

In the last month, scientists were shocked when a research station in Antarctica reported surprising warm weather.  The temperature at Concordia Research station atop Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau surged to -11.5 degrees Celsius on March 18. While the normal high temperature for the day remains around -49 degrees[Read More…]