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Researchers Demonstrate Success with New Therapy for COVID-19

January 20, 2021
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Chicago, IL — A new therapy developed by researchers at Rush University Medical Center is showing success as a way to prevent COVID-19 symptoms in mice. In a study published in the Journal...

SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Helps Select Donor Blood Samples for Therapeutic Use

January 18, 2021
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Buenos Aires, Argentina — Researchers have developed and applied a robust, versatile antibody test to assist health authorities in managing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, according...

The Odd Structure of ORF8: Mapping the Coronavirus Protein Linked to Disease Severity

January 15, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to...

New Promising Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2

January 15, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — Antibodies are an important weapon in the immune system’s defense against infections. They bind to the surface structures of bacteria or viruses and prevent their replication....

SARS-CoV-2 can infect neurons and damage brain tissue, study indicates

January 15, 2021
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New York, NY — Using both mouse and human brain tissue, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel...

Scientists Identify ‘Immune Cop’ that Detects SARS-CoV-2

January 15, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified the sensor in human lungs that detects SARS-CoV-2 and signals that it’s time to mount an antiviral...

Nanoparticle Immunization Technology could Protect Against Many Strains of Coronaviruses

January 15, 2021
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Pasadena, CA — The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family. Many of these are circulating in populations of animals like...

Detecting COVID-19 Antibodies in 10-12 Seconds

January 13, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the...

Nanocrystals that Eradicate Bacteria Biofilm

January 13, 2021
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Pohang, South Korea — The COVID-19 pandemic is raising fears of new pathogens such as new viruses or drug-resistant bacteria. To this, a Korean research team has recently drawn attention for developing...

Nanoparticle Vaccine for COVID-19

January 12, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Before the pandemic, the lab of Stanford University biochemist Peter S. Kim focused on developing vaccines for HIV, Ebola and pandemic influenza. But, within days of closing their campus...

New Findings Help Explain How COVID-19 Overpowers the Immune System

January 12, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — Seeking to understand why COVID-19 is able to suppress the body’s immune response, new research from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology suggests that mitochondria are...

Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Lethal Viruses

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego have broken down the genomic and...

Research Strongly Suggests COVID-19 Virus Enters the Brain

December 18, 2020
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Seattle, WA — More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2...

Study Shows Endothelial Cell Targeting could Help Fight Covid-19 Symptoms

December 15, 2020
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Stony Brook, NY — For Covid-19 patients with serious lung disease, targeting endothelial cells -cells that comprise the blood vessel wall which regulate oxygen exchange between airways and the bloodstream-...

Genes could be Key to New COVID-19 Treatments, Study Finds

December 14, 2020
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Edinburgh, UK — Potential treatments for Covid-19 have been identified after the discovery of five genes associated with the most severe form of the disease. Genetic evidence is second only to...

Development of High-Speed NanoPCR Technology for Point-of-Care Diagnosis of COVID-19

December 10, 2020
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Daejeon, South Korea — A “nanoPCR” technology was developed for the point-of-care (POC) diagnosis of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). This new technology can diagnose the infection within...

Researchers Identify Critical Molecules that Coronaviruses Hijack to Infect Human Cells

December 10, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — When a coronavirus–including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19–infects someone, it hijacks the person’s cells, co-opting their molecular machinery for its own...

Scientists Discover How COVID-19 Virus Causes Multiple Organ Failure in Mice

December 8, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA researchers are the first to create a version of COVID-19 in mice that shows how the disease damages organs other than the lungs. Using their model, the scientists discovered...

Protein Storytelling to Address the Pandemic

December 7, 2020
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Austin, TX — In the last five decades, we’ve learned a lot about the secret lives of proteins — how they work, what they interact with, the machinery that makes them function — and...

Study Sheds Light on Immune Mechanism that Triggers Cytokine Storm Typical of COVID-19

December 2, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have demonstrated for the first time that in COVID-19 patients an immune mechanism known as the inflammasome participates...

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