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UNM College of Arts and Sciences announces Distinguished Professors August 02, 2021 The University of New Mexico’s College of Arts and Sciences recently announced the promotion of five faculty to the rank of Distinguished Professor. The rank of Distinguished Professor is the highest title that UNM bestows upon its faculty. It is awarded to those individuals who have demonstrated outstanding achievements, and are nationally and internationally renowned as scholars. Distinguished Professors: Broidy’s research focuses on the ways in which gender frames the structural, individual, and si...

1Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. 2Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens, Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases, Office of Blood Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA. 3Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD 20993, USA. 4School of Pu...

New mutation of Brazilian COVID variant found in Florida Sun Sentinel 5/10/2021 Cindy Krischer Goodman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Florida’s Department of Health has reported a new coronavirus variant of concern in the state, a mutation of the highly contagious variant first discovered in Brazil. So far, two cases of the variant known as P2 have emerged in Florida, in a 74-year-old man in Broward County and a 51-year-old woman in Duval County. The variant has a slightly different sequence than the P1 strain, which in Brazil has been found to be more likely to re-infect peo...

[…] The children in the current trial, aged 5 months to 17 months, received three doses of vaccine at 4-week intervals and a booster dose at 12 months. Of the 146 children who received vaccine containing a high dose of an immune-boosting compound called an adjuvant, 38 developed malaria, versus 105 of 147 children in a control group who received rabies vaccine. (That protocol ensured the control group also received value from being in the trial.) The 77% efficacy against malaria dipped to 74% in children who received the malaria vaccine with a lower dose of adjuvant. The children’s levels...

Share Community health workers distribute medicine aimed at preventing seasonal malaria in Burkina Faso. A recent successful clinical trial has raised hopes for a vaccine against the disease.   LYMPIA DE MAISMONT/AFP via Getty Images Malaria vaccine has striking early success after decades of disappointment Apr. 23, 2021 , 8:25 PM After decades of disappointing results, recent findings have revived hopes for an effective vaccine against malaria, which kills some 400,000 people every year, most of them children. An experimental vaccine that targets the most dangerous form of the mala...