By Bronwyn Thompson April 10, 2023 The future path of antibiotics may be paved in gold Depositphotos There’s no underselling the role antibiotics has had on our lives; when widespread use of penicillin ushered in the ‘golden age’ of antibiotics after World War II, and discovery of many new antibiotics, the infectious diseases that used...
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A molecular machine’s secret weapon exposed
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY IMAGE: KATARINA MEZE, THE FORMER GRADUATE STUDENT IN THE JOSHUA-TOR LAB WHO LED THIS STUDY, STANDING NEXT TO THE LAB’S CRYO-EM IMAGING MACHINE. THE MACHINE ALLOWS SCIENTISTS TO FREEZE MOLECULES IN PLACE TO STUDY THEIR STRUCTURE AND GEOMETRY. CREDIT: JOSHUA-TOR LAB/CSHL RNAs are having a moment. The foundation of COVID-19 vaccines,...
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Are Your Patients Using This Anti-COVID Secret Weapon?
Lisa Jhung January 10, 2023 If your patients vowed to start exercising this year, here’s another incentive to help them stick to their guns: They could protect themselves from potentially devastating COVID-19 outcomes like hospitalization and even death. The evidence is piling up that physical activity can lower the risk of getting very sick from COVID. The CDC,...