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Infectious Diseases

Researchers have Discovered New Antiviral Mechanism for Dengue Therapeutics

July 14, 2020
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Galveston, TX — A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has uncovered a new mechanism for designing antiviral drugs for dengue virus. The study is currently...

Structural Analysis of COVID-19 Spike Protein Provides Insight into Its Evolution

July 13, 2020
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London, UK — Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have characterised the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as well as its most similar relative in a bat coronavirus. The structures provide...

CT of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Versus CT of Influenza Virus Pneumonia

July 13, 2020
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Leesburg, VA — An open-access American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) article investigating the differences in CT findings between coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia and influenza virus pneumonia...

Bats Offer Clues to Treating COVID-19

July 10, 2020
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Rochester, NY — Bats are often considered patient zero for many deadly viruses affecting humans, including Ebola, rabies, and, most recently, the SARS-CoV-2 strain of virus that causes coronavirus. Although...

Researchers Create Air Filter that can Kill Coronavirus

July 9, 2020
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Houston, TX — Researchers from the University of Houston, in collaboration with others, have designed a “catch and kill” air filter that can trap the virus responsible for COVID-19, killing...

Host Cell Fusion in Bacteria Infection Alarms Immune System, Causing Host Cell Destruction

July 9, 2020
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Singapore — Burkholderia pseudomallei is a bacterium in the soil that causes melioidosis, a tropical disease with high morbidity and mortality. Recently, researchers at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School...

Cell ‘Membrane on a Chip’ could Speed Up Screening of Drug Candidates for COVID-19

July 7, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers have developed a human cell ‘membrane on a chip’ that allows continuous monitoring of how drugs and infectious agents interact with our cells, and may soon be...

Age-Related Impairments Reversed in Animal Model

July 7, 2020
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Bern, Switzerland — Elderly people are more prone to infectious diseases as the function of their immune system continuously declines with progression of age. This becomes especially apparent during...

Researchers Develop Software to Find Drug-Resistant Bacteria

July 7, 2020
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Pullman, WA — Washington State University researchers have developed an easy-to-use software program to identify drug-resistant genes in bacteria. The program could make it easier to identify the...

Compounds Halt SARS-CoV-2 Replication by Targeting Key Viral Enzyme

July 7, 2020
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Tampa, FL — As the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic mounts, scientists worldwide continue their push to develop effective treatments and a vaccine for the highly contagious respiratory virus. University...

Newer Variant of COVID-19-Causing Virus Dominates Global Infections

July 6, 2020
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Los Alamos, NM — Research out today in the journal Cell shows that a specific change in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus virus genome, previously associated with increased viral transmission and the spread...

Global Threats: How Lessons From COVID-19 Can Prevent Environmental Meltdown

July 3, 2020
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Princeton, NJ — Epidemiologists highlighted the dangers of Covid-19 in its early stages, but their warnings went largely ignored until rising infection rates forced policymakers to take action. Likewise,...

Cell ‘Membrane on a Chip’ Could Speed up Screening of Drug Candidates for COVID-19

July 3, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — Researchers have developed a human cell ‘membrane on a chip’ that allows continuous monitoring of how drugs and infectious agents interact with our cells, and may soon be...

Even in the Worst COVID-19 Cases, the Body Launches Immune Cells to Fight Back

July 3, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A new study from researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells...

COVID-19: Study Shows Virus can Infect Heart Cells in Lab Dish

July 2, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), can infect heart cells in a lab dish, indicating it may be possible for heart cells in COVID-19 patients...

Lab-Grown ‘Mini-Brains’ Suggest COVID-19 Virus Can Infect Human Brain Cells

July 1, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — A multidisciplinary team from two Johns Hopkins University institutions, including neurotoxicologists and virologists from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and infectious disease...

Designing Anew: Radical COVID-19 Drug Development Approach Shows Promise

July 1, 2020
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Austin, TX — Nearly every drug that is, or has ever been, used was derived from nature — harnessing compounds created by organisms over eons to fight diseases. But decades ago, biochemists postulated...

Existing Drugs can Prevent SARS-CoV-2 from Hijacking Cells

June 30, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — An international team of researchers has analysed how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks the proteins in its target cells. The research, published in the journal Cell,...

New Evidence for How Blood Clots may Form in Very Ill COVID-19 Patients

June 30, 2020
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Scientists have new evidence that overactive neutrophils–a common type of circulating immune cell–may drive the life-threatening blood clots and inflammation that...

Even in Worst COVID-19 Cases, the Body Launches Immune Cells to Fight Back

June 30, 2020
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