Swaminathan S
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A first step towards a universal vaccine against pneumonia, meningitis (opens the original)
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There is a bacterium called Streptococcus pneumoniae. It comes in at least a hundred different forms, or serotypes, and lives in the tissue lining our nose and throat. S. pneumoniae is normally harmless. But when your body’s immune system becomes weaker, for example when you have a viral fever, these bacteria may invade your lungs and cause pneumonia, your brain and spinal cord to cause meningitis, and your bloodstream to cause sepsis. These diseases are called pneumococcal diseases, and fortuna
Indiaâs first dengue vaccine arrives with a crucial safety caveat (opens the original)
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Indiaâs drug regulator just approved the countryâs first dengue vaccine, Qdenga. It is designed and claimed to protect against the four serotypes of the dengue-causing virus, called DENV-1 to DENV-4. Young children as well as adults (aged 4-60 years), irrespective of whether they have had dengue before, may be vaccinated with Qdenga. More than 40 countries have already approved Qdenga, which is manufactured by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda. That said, data from clinical trials t
Why scientists watched a gene hop from a predator into its prey (opens the original)
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Since scientists discovered jumping genes in maize in 1950, they have known that bits of DNA can move around the genome, mostly within the cell nucleus. Scientists have also found evidence of genes having jumped across species. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany have reported a remarkable observation: they have visually tracked an RNA molecule, called an intron, as it jumped from one organism into another. This is remarkable because the scientists lit
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