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Quick, Cost-Effective Method to Track the Spread of COVID-19

August 13, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — A group of researchers have demonstrated that, from seven methods commonly used to test for viruses in untreated wastewater, an adsorption-extraction technique can most efficiently...

Researchers Identify a Protein That may Help SARS-CoV-2 Spread Rapidly Through Cells

August 13, 2020
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Fort Collins, CO — Eric Ross and Sean Cascarina, biochemistry and molecular biology researchers at Colorado State University, have released a research paper identifying a protein encoded by SARS-CoV-2,...

Recipe for Success — Interaction Proteomics Become a Household Item

August 12, 2020
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Helsinki, Finland — Proteins in human cells do not function in isolation and their interactions with other proteins define their cellular functions. Therefore, detailed understanding of protein-protein...

COVID-19 does not Directly Damage Taste Bud Cells

August 11, 2020
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Athens, GA — A new study from the Regenerative Bioscience Center at the University of Georgia is the first to suggest that COVID-19 does not directly damage taste bud cells. Contrary to previous...

Agtech to The Rescue in a Pandemic: Adapting Plant Labs for Human Testing

August 11, 2020
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Saskatoon, SK — Just as redeploying a fleet of small British fishing boats helped during the Battle of Dunkirk, marshalling the research equipment and expertise of the many agtech labs around the world...

Electric Cooker an Easy, Efficient Way to Sanitize N95 Masks, Study Suggests

August 7, 2020
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Champaign, IL — Owners of electric multicookers may be able to add another use to its list of functions, a new study suggests: sanitization of N95 respirator masks. The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign...

AI for COVID-19 Diagnosis, Treatment, and Monitoring

August 5, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — The National Institutes of Health has launched the Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC), an ambitious effort that will harness the powers of artificial intelligence, and...

Study Suggests Embryos Could Be Susceptible to Coronavirus

August 5, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Genes that are thought to play a role in how the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects our cells have been found to be active in embryos as early as during the second week of pregnancy, say scientists...

Researchers Develop New Mouse Model for Sars-Cov-2

August 5, 2020
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New York, NY — Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine have developed a new mouse model to study SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease and to accelerate testing of novel treatments and vaccines...

Re-Engineering Antibodies for COVID-19

July 31, 2020
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Austin, TX — With millions of COVID-19 cases reported across the globe, people are turning to antibody tests to find out whether they have been exposed to the coronavirus that causes the disease. But...

Immunoprotein Impairs SARS-Cov-2

July 30, 2020
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Bochum, Germany — A protein produced by the human immune system can strongly inhibit coronaviruses, including SARS-Cov-2, the pathogen causing COVID-19. An international team from Germany, Switzerland...

Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine Protects Upper and Lower Airways in Nonhuman Primates

July 29, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Two doses of an experimental vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) induced robust immune responses and rapidly controlled the coronavirus in the upper and lower airways...

COVID-19 Provides Rare Opportunities for Studying Natural and Human Systems

July 29, 2020
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Stanford, CA — Like the legendary falling apple that hit Isaac Newton and led to his groundbreaking insight on the nature of gravity, COVID-19 could provide unintended glimpses into how complex Earth...

Computational Gene Study Suggests New Pathway for COVID-19 Inflammatory Response

July 29, 2020
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Oak Ridge, TN — Analyses of lung fluid cells from COVID-19 patients conducted on the nation’s fastest supercomputer point to gene expression patterns that may explain the runaway symptoms produced...

COVID-19 Research: Anti-Viral Strategy With Double Effect

July 29, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — In the case of an infection, the SARS-CoV-2 virus must overcome various defence mechanisms of the human body, including its non-specific or innate immune defence. During this process,...

COVID-19 May Cause Deadly Blood Clots

July 29, 2020
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Washington, DC — COVID-19 may increase the risk of blot clots in women who are pregnant or taking oestrogen with birth control or hormone replacement therapy, according to a new manuscript published...

Immune System Variation can Predict Severe COVID-19 Outcomes

July 28, 2020
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London, UK — The differing immune system responses of patients with COVID-19 can help predict who will experience moderate and severe consequences of disease, according to a new study by Yale researchers...

Another mRNA-Based Vaccine Candidate Protects Animals Against SARS-CoV-2

July 27, 2020
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Beijing, China — An experimental messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) elicits protective immune responses in mice and non-human primates,...

In Cell Studies, Seaweed Extract Outperforms Remdesivir in Blocking COVID-19 Virus

July 26, 2020
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Troy, NY — In a test of antiviral effectiveness against the virus that causes COVID-19, an extract from edible seaweeds substantially outperformed remdesivir, the current standard antiviral used to...

We Are Mutating Sars-Cov-2, but It Is Evolving Back

July 24, 2020
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Bath, UK — Scientists investigating the evolution of the virus that causes Covid19 say that its mutation seems to be directed by human proteins that degrade it, but natural selection of the virus enables...

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