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Immune System Protects Children from Severe COVID-19

February 18, 2021
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Victoria, Australia — Children are protected from severe COVID-19 because their innate immune system is quick to attack the virus, a new study has found. The research led by the Murdoch Children’s...

Genetic Variant Inherited from Neanderthals Reduces the Risk of Severe COVID-19

February 17, 2021
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Okinawa, Japan — SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, impacts people in different ways after infection. Some experience only mild or no symptoms at all while others become sick enough to require...

A Machine-Learning Approach to Finding Treatment Options for Covid-19

February 15, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — When the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, doctors and researchers rushed to find effective treatments. There was little time to spare. “Making new drugs takes forever,”...

Experts Discuss SARS-CoV-2 Viral Variants

February 15, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — The rise of several significant variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has attracted the attention of health and science experts worldwide. In an editorial published...

Early Functional SARS-COV-2 Specific T cell Response may Prevent Severe Infection

February 2, 2021
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Singapore — Humoral and cellular adaptive immunity are two immune mechanisms that act against pathogens. Humoral immunity is mediated by antibodies, while cellular immunity does not involve antibodies...

Researchers Develop Smartphone-Based COVID-19 Test

February 1, 2021
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Tucson, AZ — Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes. The...

Remdesivir Disrupts COVID-19 Virus Better Than Other Similar Drugs

February 1, 2021
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Chicago, IL — In the treatment of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, antiviral drug remdesivir has emerged as a promising candidate. Remdesivir works by disrupting the virus’s ability...

Study details N439K variant of SARS-CoV-2

January 29, 2021
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Glasgow, UK — An international team of researchers has characterized the effect and molecular mechanisms of an amino acid change in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein N439K. Viruses with this mutation are...

Scientists Discover How Remdesivir Works to Inhibit Coronavirus

January 29, 2021
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Austin, TX — More effective antiviral treatments could be on the way after research from The University of Texas at Austin sheds new light on the COVID-19 antiviral drug remdesivir, the only treatment...

New Biosensors Quickly Detect Coronavirus Proteins and Antibodies

January 29, 2021
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Seattle, WA — Scientists have created a new way to detect the proteins that make up the pandemic coronavirus, as well as antibodies against it. They designed protein-based biosensors that glow when...

T Cells can Mount Attacks Against many SARS-CoV-2 Targets — Even on New Virus Variant

January 28, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — A new study led by scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) suggests that T cells try to fight SARS-CoV-2 by targeting a broad range of sites on the virus–beyond the...

Ultra-Absorptive Nanofiber Swabs could Improve SARS-CoV-2 Test Sensitivity

January 27, 2021
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Omaha, NE — Rapid, sensitive diagnosis of COVID-19 is essential for early treatment, contact tracing and reducing viral spread. However, some people infected with SARS-CoV-2 receive false-negative...

Researchers Engineer Antibody that Acts Against Multiple SARS-like Viruses

January 26, 2021
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Washington, DC — Researchers have engineered an antibody that neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 with a potency that “rivals” current lead SARS-CoV-2 clinical neutralizing antibodies, and that also...

How Fast could SARS-CoV-2 be Detected?

January 26, 2021
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Beijing, China — In the past 20 years, humans have suffered several serious epidemics from emerging viruses, such as SARS, swine flu, Ebola, MERS and (most recently) SARS-CoV-2. During each epidemic,...

New Biochemical Clues in Cell Receptors Help Explain How SARS-CoV-2 may Hijack Human Cells

January 22, 2021
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Washington, DC — The SARS-CoV-2 virus may enter and replicate in human cells by exploiting newly-identified sequences within cell receptors, according to work from two teams of scientists. The findings...

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...

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