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Racism in the United States has been cited as a key driver of racial health inequities. Racism as a public health crisis has been in the forefront, particularly with respect to state and municipal governments that have developed legislation, resolutions and declarations. This policy brief includes a review of resolutions and declarations across the US related to Racism as a Public Health Crisis through September 2020. There were 125 resolutions reviewed for content related to the history of racism, reference to racial health equity data, solutions and action steps, implementation and any accom...

Sea cucumbers are a popular luxury and delicacy food items in Asian markets. These echinoderms possess a wide range of bioactive substances that can be used to produce pharmaceutical products. Recent depletion of natural populations of sea cucumbers requires involving new objects both in commercial harvesting and aquaculture. The northern sea cucumber Cucumaria frondosa is the most abundant sea cucumber in the Barents Sea. In this paper, we summarized literature data on the biology of this polar species to evaluate its fishery and aquaculture potential in the area. This eurythermic sea cucumbe...

Study suggests mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines remain effective against variants The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused over four million deaths and infected over 194 million worldwide. In an effort to counter the rapid spread of the virus, which has an unpredictable propensity to cause severe or even fatal disease in a significant minority of cases, vaccines were developed at an unprecedentedly rapid rate. Background The emergence of several SARS-CoV-2 variants that are associated with higher transmissibility and...

2Informatic Unit, INMEDIT SAS and Faculty of Engineering, University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Colombia 3Clinica Respiratoria y de Alergias, Cartagena, Colombia 4Departamento de Investigaciones, Fundación Cardioinfantil, Bogotá, Colombia 5Research Department - CINEUMO, Fundación Neumológica Colombiana, Bogotá, Colombia 6Research Department and Specialization Program in Pulmonology, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, Colombia Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19, but the mechanisms are unclear. Besides, patients with ...

1,2† 1Department of Agrobiotechnology IFA-Tulln, Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria 2Division Polymers & Enzymes, Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology, Graz, Austria 3Institute of Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria 4Department of Material Sciences and Process Engineering (MAP), Institute of Physics and Materials Science (IPM), Vienna, Austria 5Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Microorganisms, like bac...