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Infectious Diseases

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...

Iron-Carrying Extracellular Vesicles are Key to Respiratory Viral-Bacterial Co-Infection

January 27, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — The mechanism by which acute viral respiratory infections promote secondary bacterial growth and infection in the airways depends on iron-carrying extracellular sacs secreted by the...

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,...

Oestrogen Receptors in Mom’s Placenta Critical during Viral Infection

January 22, 2021
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Durham, NC — Researchers at Duke and Mt. Sinai have identified a molecular mechanism that prevents a viral infection during a mother’s pregnancy from harming her unborn baby. When a person...

Scientists Make Pivotal Discovery on Mechanism of Epstein-Barr Virus Latent Infection

January 22, 2021
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Philadelphia, PA — Researchers at The Wistar Institute have discovered a new enzymatic function of the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) protein EBNA1, a critical factor in EBV’s ability to transform...

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...

Scientists Identify Nutrient that Helps Prevent Bacterial Infection

January 18, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Scientists studying the body’s natural defenses against bacterial infection have identified a nutrient–taurine–that helps the gut recall prior infections and kill invading...

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...

Unravelling the Mystery that Makes Viruses Infectious

January 13, 2021
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Leeds, UK — Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells. The...

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...

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