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Traditional Japanese dish may be an unexpected weapon in the fight against corona

An extract made from nattō has been shown to inhibit the ability of the coronavirus to infect cells. Nattō is a sticky and strong-smelling traditional...

COVID-19 is easier to eradicate than polio

But then enough people must be vaccinated and the spread of newly emerging variants must be nipped in the bud. Of course we all want...

COVID-19 can just transform into a childhood disease

As adults become immune, the risk of infection will shift to younger, unvaccinated children, researchers predict. What we know so far about the coronavirus seems...

Covid-19 vaccines protect less well against Delta variant

Covid-19 vaccines protect less well against Delta variant, and a third shot certainly seems necessary for vulnerable groups. This is the conclusion of a...

Quarantined in a test tube: these flies underwent it for science

And it turns out that quarantined lone fruit flies sleep too little and eat too much. Recognizable? For many people, the lockdowns introduced have...

One vaccine against all variants and future coronavirus outbreaks: it doesn’t seem impossible

People who have had SARS have been shown to produce antibodies after vaccination with Pfizer that successfully fight not only known corona variants, but...

Major pandemics are much less rare than you think

And the chance that one will break out will also become much greater in the coming decades. The current COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the deadliest...

Where did the pandemic start? If we don’t hurry, we’ll never know

Any delay will make some studies biologically impossible. If we want to find out the origin of the coronavirus, we will have to act...

A large part of seriously ill corona patients still have complaints after 1 year

A large-scale study in China shows this. We know that if you've had COVID-19, it can take quite a while for you to fully recover....

Delta variant doubles the chance of hospitalization

It means that the delta variant is considerably more dangerous for unvaccinated people than the alpha (British) variant. Meanwhile, the original coronavirus has mutated several...

Stories ensure a synchronized heartbeat

When listening to a story, the heartbeat of the listener synchronizes. (Image: comotion_design / iStock) When we listen to a story, our heart beats...

Web spider tactics against bacteria

A macrophage kills bacteria. (3D illustration: urfinguss / iStock) The victims are tied with sticky threads, then the fatal attack follows: In order to...

Molecular weak point of colon cancer cells discovered

Tissue section of an intestinal tumor, lipids are stained red, cell nuclei in blue. (Image: Klaus-Peter Janssen) In order to find targets for treatment...

How lung cancer develops in non-smokers

What are the mutations behind non-smoking lung cancer? (Image: National Cancer Institute) Smoking is the number one cause of lung cancer, and most research...

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