Development

K-State Launches Vaccine Development Research Center

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Jishu Shi will be the director July 7, 2023 3 minute read The Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine announced the launch of the new Center on Vaccine Evaluation and Alternatives for Antimicrobials, or CVEAA, to support the development and use of animal vaccines. Jishu Shi, a professor of vaccine immunology and one of … Read more

The role of lung dysfunction and COVID-19 severity in the development of long-term COVID

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Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Image Credit: NiphonSubsri/Shutterstock.com

In a study published in the medRxiv* preprint server, a team of interdisciplinary research groups has identified a genome-wide significant association (GWAS) for long-term coronavirus disease (COVID) at the FOXP4 locus, which has previously been associated with cancer, severe COVID 2019 ( COVID-19) and lung function. Study: Genome-wide association study of long COVID. Image Credit: … Read more