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New Immunotherapy Study Gives Encouraging News For Children With Peanut Allergy

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Children who are highly allergic to peanuts stand a significant chance to reduce the risk of adverse and potentially life-threatening reactions to the food, new research suggests.   In a clinical trial of young peanut-allergic children aged between one and three years old, the majority of participants who underwent an oral immunotherapy regime saw marked … Read more

Desert Beetles Rely on Oral Sex for Successful Mating

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When researcher Xinghu Qin ventured through rangeland near Inner Mongolia’s Hunshandake Desert, he spotted some puzzling behavior between two little beetles mating shamelessly in the open: one was constantly licking the other’s tail. “What on earth were they doing?” wondered Qin, then a graduate student at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. They were Mongolian … Read more

FDA greenlights Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 drug | Science

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization for the potent oral antiviral regimen developed by Pfizer to treat COVID-19, making it just the second such drug to receive a regulatory greenlight by any country. Last month, the United Kingdom authorized the use of a Merck-made pill that appears much … Read more