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News at a glance: Diphtheria vaccine shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION Popular biodiversity app to expand The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 2008, the ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 21, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

News at a glance: Diphtheria treatment shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION Popular biodiversity app to expand The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 2008, the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

A Matter of Facts — September 2023
sramashwarSeptember 11, 2023From Our PresidentFor those of us involved in the close-knit community field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, conferences are an opportunity to come together as a movement. Convening regularly with colleagues and collaborators, partners and peers from around the world provides us with important insights and chances to connect. To break bread, build bridges and even to let loose.The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 caused event after event to be canceled or postponed. It ’s wonderful to see in-person meetings and events returning. It’s also refreshing to see that hybrid events continue ...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - September 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: sramashwar Source Type: news

Recombination in sarbecovirus lineage and mutations/insertions in spike protein are linked to the emergence and adaptation of SARS-CoV-2
Bioinformation. 2022 Oct 31;18(10):951-961. doi: 10.6026/97320630018951. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTThe outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Wuhan city, China in December 2019 and thereafter its spillover across the world has created a global pandemic and public health crisis. Right after, there has been intense interest in understanding how the SARS-CoV-2 originated and evolved. This paper also aims to shed light on the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV- 2. A consensus result based on whole genome phylogeny, gene tree analysis, and genetic similarity study revealed that SARS-CoV-2 evolv...
Source: Bioinformation - September 11, 2023 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Anup Som Amresh Kumar Sharma Priyanka Kumari Source Type: research

U.S. cancels program aimed at identifying potential pandemic viruses
In what many see as fallout from the concern that researchers studying bat viruses may have triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has prematurely ended a $125 million program aimed at identifying viruses in animals that might harm humans. USAID launched the program, known as the Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens – Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN), in October 2021. It tapped the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health at Washington State University (WSU) to lead a consortium that planned to work in up to 12 foreign countries over 5 years. Goals included trainin...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Spatial and phylogenetic patterns reveal hidden infection sources of Bacillus anthracis in an anthrax outbreak in son La province, Vietnam
Infect Genet Evol. 2023 Sep 5:105496. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2023.105496. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBacillus anthracis, the bacterial cause of anthrax, is a zoonosis affecting livestock and wildlife often spilling over into humans. In Vietnam, anthrax has been nationally reportable since 2015 with cases occurring annually, mostly in the northern provinces. In April 2022, an outbreak was reported in Son La province following the butchering of a water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. A total of 137 humans from three villages were likely exposed to contaminated meat from the animal. Early epidemiological investigations suggested ...
Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution - September 7, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Morgan C Metrailer Thi Thu Ha Hoang Treenate Jiranantasak Tan Luong Luong Minh Hoa Do Bich Ngoc Quang Thai Pham Van Khang Pham Tran Thi Mai Hung Vu Thi Lan Huong Thanh Long Pham Jose Miguel Ponciano Gabriela Hamerlinck Duc Anh Dang Michael H Norris Jason Source Type: research

Spatial and phylogenetic patterns reveal hidden infection sources of Bacillus anthracis in an anthrax outbreak in Son La province, Vietnam
Infect Genet Evol. 2023 Sep 7;114:105496. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2023.105496. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBacillus anthracis, the bacterial cause of anthrax, is a zoonosis affecting livestock and wildlife often spilling over into humans. In Vietnam, anthrax has been nationally reportable since 2015 with cases occurring annually, mostly in the northern provinces. In April 2022, an outbreak was reported in Son La province following the butchering of a water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis. A total of 137 humans from three villages were likely exposed to contaminated meat from the animal. Early epidemiological investigations sugges...
Source: Infection, Genetics and Evolution - September 7, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Morgan C Metrailer Thi Thu Ha Hoang Treenate Jiranantasak Tan Luong Luong Minh Hoa Do Bich Ngoc Quang Thai Pham Van Khang Pham Tran Thi Mai Hung Vu Thi Lan Huong Thanh Long Pham Jos é Miguel Ponciano Gabriela Hamerlinck Duc Anh Dang Michael H Norris Jaso Source Type: research

Synthesis of copaiba ( < i > Copaifera officinalis < /i > ) oil nanoemulsion and the potential against Zika virus: An < i > in vitro < /i > study
by Tamara Carvalho, Marcela Guimar ães Landim, Maria Letícia Duarte Lima, Cíntia Bittar, Beatriz Carvalho de Araújo Oliveira Faria, Paula Rahal, Milena Campelo Freitas de Lima, Valdir Florêncio da Veiga Junior, Graziella Anselmo Joanitti, Marilia Freitas Calmon Zika virus (ZIKV) has spread all over the world since its major outbreak in 2015. This infection has been recognized as a major global health issue due to the neurological complications related to ZIKV infection, such as Guillain–Barré Syndrome and Zika virus Congenital Syndrome. Currently, the re are no vaccines or specific treatments for ZIKV infection, w...
Source: PLoS One - September 7, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Tamara Carvalho Source Type: research

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parental vaccine hesitancy: A cross-sectional survey
CONCLUSION: Our study demonstrates that parental perceptions about childhood vaccines have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through geographic and social clustering of non-vaccination. Beliefs about the COVID-19 vaccine have spillover with beliefs about childhood vaccines, and more negative beliefs may be clustering in areas with low vaccination coverage, which could predispose the area to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease.PMID:37659897 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.044
Source: Vaccine - September 2, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Lily A Grills Abram L Wagner Source Type: research

The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.
Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health officials after they found that it had been improperly managing almost 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of infectious diseases including COVID-19, rubella, malaria, dengue, chlamydia, hepatitis, and HIV. The lab was registered to a company called Prestige Biotech that sold a variety of medical testing kits, including for pregnancy and COVID-19, and it was likely storing disease samples for the purpose of developing and validati...
Source: TIME: Health - August 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Greene, Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke Tags: Uncategorized Science Source Type: news

Viruses, Vol. 15, Pages 1827: Adipose Tissues from Human and Bat-Derived Cell Lines Support Ebola Virus Infection
This study assessed adipose tissue as a previously overlooked tissue capable of supporting Ebola virus infection. Adipose tissue is a dynamic endocrine organ helping to regulate and coordinate homeostasis, energy metabolism, and neuroendocrine and immune functions. Through in vitro infection of human and bat (Eptesicus fuscus) brown adipose tissue cultures using wild-type Ebola virus, this study showed high levels of viral replication for 28 days with no qualitative indicators of cytopathic effects. In addition, alterations in adipocyte metabolism following long-term infection were qualitatively observed through an increas...
Source: Viruses - August 29, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Lauren Garnett Kaylie N. Tran Zachary Schiffman Kristina A. Muise Quinn E. Fletcher Yvonne A. Dzal Anders Leung Alix Albietz Bryce M. Warner Bryan D. Griffin Darwyn Kobasa Craig K. R. Willis James E. Strong Tags: Article Source Type: research

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