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Histamine May Play Role in Depression Bodily inflammation dampens levels of a ‘feel-good molecule’ and antidepressants’ ability to boost them, according to new research in mice.

Some really interesting targets for future malaria work.

A Rare Blood Type Variant Helps Prevent Malaria. Now We Finally Know How A rare blood variant, found only in parts of East Africa, can help the body resist malaria even better than our best vaccines.

In Schizophrenia, Nature Trumps Nurture UCI research led by Amal Alachkar found that too much of a certain amino acid in utero caused schizophrenia in mice despite the quality of postpartum caregiving – and the study suggests that the same would be true with humans.

A Mouse Model of SARS-CoV-2
Infection and Pathogenesis

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Oracle BrandVoice GridMarkets runs its rendering platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, speeding production of ultraheavy workloads at scale.

Really interested to see how this goes.

Scientists are ready to trial a new cancer vaccine in humans following the successful outcome of their preclinical studies. More here: https://bit.ly/2W7rNCx

Salk Scientists: 'Killer' Lung Immune Cells Could Be Potential Weapon Against Coronavirus T cells are white blood cells that flare up when the body is infected with a virus. They attack the cells that are already infected and get rid of them, so the body can stay healthy.

Games are therapy... at least for me.

The FDA just approved the first prescription video game — it’s for kids with ADHD EndeavorRX, formerly Project EVO, may go down in history.

Humans Inoculated with Genetically Modified Malaria Parasites Engineered Plasmodium parasites form the basis of two experimental malaria vaccines that showed safety and encouraging immune responses in clinical trials.

Johnson & Johnson Announces It Has Identified a Lead Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate Chairman & CEO Alex Gorsky shares that the company could have the first batches of a Covid-19 vaccine available for emergency-use authorization in early 2021—a substantially accelerated time frame in comparison to the typical vaccine development process.

Sound science:

For live/up to date CoVid19 cases:

COVID-19 Map Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)