While people in many countries around the world are still worried about the inoculation against the deadly COVID-19, and many are puzzled about how different coronavirus vaccines work, the Mustafa (PBUH) Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) held the fourth round of Mustafa (PBUH) Prize Science Promotion Meeting on the different approaches to coronavirus vaccine development with the presence of professional experts in this area.

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Guinea officially declared that it is dealing with an Ebola epidemic after the deaths of at least three people from the virus.

Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but now researchers from the National Institutes of Health in the US have added evidence for yet another potential benefit for wearers: The humidity created inside the mask may help combat respiratory diseases such as COVID-19.

Air pollution could cloud your vision in later life, according to a large study that found a link between fine particle air pollution and macular degeneration, an age-related eye disease that can lead to irreversible blindness.

Many cancer patients might respond better to treatments with the help of a new prognostic indicator based on a distinctive pattern of gene activity within tumor cells, according to a new study of human cancer data and experiments on human cancer cell lines grown in the lab.

Iran registered one of the lowest daily death rates, 62, from the coronavirus infection over the past nine months during the 24-hour period to Sunday noon, announced the Health Ministry.

By David Spiegelhalter & Anthony Masters*

Taking regular exercise is going to become increasingly important in helping to prevent cancers, say scientists.

A test that monitors blood levels of DNA fragments released by dying tumor cells may serve as an accurate early indicator of treatment success in people in late stages of one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, a new study finds.