Mindzilla – Coronavirus

Coronavirus

Taking Inventory of Which Drugs the World is Using to Treat COVID-19

May 28, 2020
Mindzilla

Philadelphia, PA — With doctors and researchers around the world searching for effective treatments for COVID-19, many drugs approved to treat other diseases are being used in hopes that they’ll...

Simple and Readily Available Saline Solution can Reliably Transport COVID-19 Samples to Testing Labs

May 28, 2020
Mindzilla

New Brunswick, NJ — In a new peer-reviewed study appearing in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, published by Elsevier, investigators report that a simple salt solution commonly found in hospitals...

Masks Reduce Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

May 28, 2020
Mindzilla

Washington, DC — Growing evidence suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can be spread by asymptomatic people via aerosols — a reality that deeply underscores the...

Scientists Synthesize Anti-Inflammatory Tick Spit Protein

May 27, 2020
Mindzilla

Sydney, Australia — Anti-inflammatory proteins in tick saliva have been synthetically produced for the first time, a promising step towards new therapeutic treatments. Evasins, as the proteins are...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect COVID-19 in X-Rays

May 27, 2020
Mindzilla

Bedford, UK — Students at Cranfield University have designed computer models that can identify COVID-19 in X-rays. The models use computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze chest...

Countering COVID-19 Impacts on Children From Low-Income Households

May 27, 2020
Mindzilla

Baltimore, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living...

Anxiety Needs Global Health Attention

May 27, 2020
Mindzilla

London, UK — Led by King’s College London in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine...

Preventing ‘Cytokine Storm’ May Ease Severe COVID-19 Symptoms

May 27, 2020
Mindzilla

Chevy Chase, MD — For some COVID-19 patients, the body’s immune response may be as destructive as the virus that causes the disease. The persistent high fevers, severe respiratory distress, and...

Evidence Shows Cloth Masks may Help Against COVID-19

May 26, 2020
Mindzilla

Hamilton, ON — The evidence shows that cloth masks, particularly those with several layers of cotton cloth, block droplet and aerosol contamination of the environment, which may reduce transmission...

COVID-19 should be Treated as a Thrombotic Disease, Brazilian Pulmonologist Argues

May 26, 2020
Mindzilla

São Paulo, Brazil — The hypothesis that blood clotting disorders may explain some of the worst symptoms of COVID-19, including respiratory failure and pulmonary fibrosis, was suggested in mid-April...

New Technology can Detect Anti-Virus Antibody in 20 Minutes

May 25, 2020
Mindzilla

Sapporo, Japan — Researchers have succeeded in detecting anti-avian influenza virus antibody in blood serum within 20 minutes, using a portable analyzer they have developed to conduct rapid on-site...

COVID-19 Cytokine Storm: Possible Mechanism for the Deadly Respiratory Syndrome

May 25, 2020
Mindzilla

Sapporo, Japan — Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible...

One Minute Electro-Optical Coronavirus Test Developed

May 24, 2020
Mindzilla

Beer-Sheva, Israel — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Gabby Sarusi has developed a one-minute electro-optical test of nose, throat or breath samples that will identify both asymptomatic...

Age, Male Sex, Obesity, and Underlying Illness Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 or Death

May 24, 2020
Mindzilla

London, UK — Age, male sex, obesity, and underlying illness have emerged as risk factors for severe covid-19 or death in the UK, according to the largest cohort study to date published by The BMJ May...

Placentas From COVID-19-Positive Pregnant Women Show Injury

May 24, 2020
Mindzilla

Chicago, IL — The placentas from 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 while pregnant showed evidence of injury, according to pathological exams completed directly following birth, reports a new...

Machine that Oxygenates Blood may Help Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients, Study Says

May 21, 2020
Mindzilla

Morgantown, WV — When COVID-19 patients are critically ill, the biggest threat to their lives is lung dysfunction. If their lungs don’t work, their blood can’t circulate enough oxygen to...

Smoking Increases SARS-CoV-2 Receptors in Lung

May 21, 2020
Mindzilla

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — New research from CSHL scientists suggests that cigarette smoke spurs the lungs to make more ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the protein that the coronavirus responsible...

Enzymes Edit SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Body, Perhaps Fueling the Virus’ Evolution

May 21, 2020
Mindzilla

Washington, D.C — Two human deaminase enzymes edit the RNA of the SARS-CoV-2 virus when it enters a patient’s body, with implications for the evolution of the virus and the spread of the infection,...

How to identify patients most at risk from COVID-19 through nanotechnology

May 21, 2020
Mindzilla

East Lansing, MI — What if doctors could not only diagnose a COVID-19 infection but identify which patients are at the greatest risk of death before any major complications arise? One Michigan State...

New Wearable Sensor Tracks Vitamin C Levels in Sweat

May 20, 2020
Mindzilla

La Jolla, CA — A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable, non invasive Vitamin C sensor that could provide a new, highly personalized option for users to track their...

T&C

Privacy