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ABSTRACT Injected COVID-19 vaccines protect against severe disease, but do not induce robust mucosal immune responses. Nasal vaccines offer the advantage of local immunity to block viral infection and transmission. Previously we showed immunization of a Pam2Cys-adjuvanted SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to the upper and lower respiratory tracts (URT/LRT) induced protective immune responses in the lungs. However, URT/LRT immunization is not representative of nasal vaccines for clinical use that exclusively target the URT...

1 sept. 2025

ABSTRACT Background To describe the impact of long COVID on disability, function and quality of life among adults living in Australia. Method People aged >18 years with a history of COVID-19 infection confirmed by polymerase chain reaction or rapid antigen test were eligible for this cross-sectional survey. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 measured disability and function, and the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey assessed quality of life. Results Participants (n = 121) r...

25 août 2025

Cancer patients undergoing transplantation-based treatments can develop graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), an inflammatory condition that increases mortality risk. In this study, we analyzed three cancer patients with severe inflammatory disorders following SARS-CoV-2 infection using high-resolution microscopy and spatial transcriptomics on pre- and post-infection GI biopsies. We found that up to 49 days after infection, the duodenal epithelium retained COVID viral elements, showed increased expression of vir...

25 août 2025

ABSTRACT Individuals with long COVID exhibit neurological and psychiatric symptoms that often persist well beyond the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. Studies using [18F]-FDG positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) have revealed diverse abnormalities in brain glucose metabolism during the post-acute phase of COVID-19. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the spatial distribution and heterogeneity of brain metabolic changes in patients in the post-acute phase of COVID-19 relative to contr...

7 août 2025

Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually. These impacts fall disproportionately upon low-income and at-risk populations. The principal driver of this crisis is accelerating growth in plastic production—from 2 megatonnes (Mt) in 1950, to 475 Mt in 2022 that is projected to be 1200 Mt by 2060. Plastic pollution has al...

3 août 2025