A South African research team, which included Lessells, discovered an untreated HIV patient late last year who was infected with Covid-19 for more than six months and gave rise to a string of ...mutations that affected the spike protein, the part of the virus where most of Omicron’s adaptations are located. Jonathan Li, director of the Harvard/Brigham virology specialty laboratory in Boston, said it was “striking” that two variants of concern — Beta and Omicron — had arisen in southern Africa, a region with “large numbers of immunosuppressed individuals as a result of HIV infection”. “The collision of high case numbers, low vaccine availability and decades of an HIV crisis means that the chance immunocompromised individuals have been carrying Covid for a while is very high,” said Otto.
FT Health: combating malaria Jack, Andrew; Cookson, Clive; Murray, Sarah ...
The Financial times (London ed.),
04/2015
Newspaper Article
This special report begins the new tools and tactics to be used against this killer disease as pesticides and existing treatments are losing their effectiveness. Further articles deal with research ...into how insects target humans, Oxitec's lethal gene against mosquitoes, new approaches to prevention as bed nets lose their effectiveness, Australian drug trial research with human volunteers, Haiti's campaign, rapid diagnosis of victims with low-grade infections in order to prevent disease spread, the hopes for a malaria vaccine, and insecticides.
Women of 2015 Sevastopulo, Demetri; Clark, Pilita; Jobey, Liz ...
The Financial times (London ed.),
12/2015
Newspaper Article
Interviews some of the women who have been prominent in the past year. They include: US First Lady Michelle Obama, French climate negotiator Laurence Tubiana, Italian writer Elena Ferrante, ...Australian jockey Michelle Payne, Ethiopian athlete Genzebe Dibaba, Indian actor Deepika Padukone, US Fed chief Janet Yellen, South African anti-corruption tsar Thuli Madonsela, US CEO and campaigner Anne-Marie Slaughter, Taiwanese politician Tsai Ing-wen, British charity chair Eliza Manningham-Buller, and Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti.
