Study participants are sent a kit with supplies they need to collect breastmilk.
AMHERST, Mass. – Antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus were detected in colostrum, which is early breastmilk, from 14 of 15 women who had tested positive for COVID-19 before giving birth, according to preliminary findings from research led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst breast cancer researcher and a University of Massachusetts Medical School obstetrician-gynecologist.
As the team of UMass Amherst scientists continues related research, the early data on colostrum, the nutrient- and antibody-rich breastmilk produced in the first few days after childbirth, is available on medRxiv, the health sciences preprint server for research not yet peer-reviewed.
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The conversation will begin with an address by University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and will feature some of Sanchez’s poetry. In addition to the dialogue between Sanchez and Bracey, there will be time for attendees to ask questions.
Sanchez is a key figure in the Black Arts Movement, a multi-award-winning poet, activist, and an academic who has impacted the fights for gender rights, racial justice, and peace around the world.
Bracey is a former chair and current graduate certificate co-director at the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an award-winning academic and activist.
UMass Amherst and Penn State scientists teamed up to study how myosin converts energy into work
January 14, 2021
Ned Debold
AMHERST, Mass. – A team of biophysicists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Penn State College of Medicine set out to tackle the long-standing question about the nature of force generation by myosin, the molecular motor responsible for muscle contraction and many other cellular processes. The key question they addressed – one of the most controversial topics in the field – was: how does myosin convert chemical energy, in the form of ATP, into mechanical work?
The answer revealed new details into how myosin, the engine of muscle and related motor proteins, transduces energy.
Is COVID-19 immunity shared through breastmilk? Metro Detroit doctors take part in study
Local doctors are studying COVID-19 vaccines and its impact on nursing babies.
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DETROIT, Michigan (WXYZ) â When breastfeeding mothers get the COVID-19 vaccine, do babies get protection too? That is the question two doctors from here in metro Detroit are hoping to help answer.
Dr. Yuliya Malayevâs daughter Mara was born just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit Michigan. When the doctor at Metro Obstetrics and Gynecology in Commerce got the chance to get the COVID-19 vaccine, she looked up research on the impact on nursing babies. She couldnât find much information. Few lactating and pregnant women had been studied.