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Scientists Synthesize Anti-Inflammatory Tick Spit Protein

May 27, 2020
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Sydney, Australia — Anti-inflammatory proteins in tick saliva have been synthetically produced for the first time, a promising step towards new therapeutic treatments. Evasins, as the proteins are...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect COVID-19 in X-Rays

May 27, 2020
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Bedford, UK — Students at Cranfield University have designed computer models that can identify COVID-19 in X-rays. The models use computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze chest...

Researchers Discover Key Player in Hepatitis a Virus Infection

May 27, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — How hepatitis A virus (HAV) manages to enter liver cells called hepatocytes and initiate infection had remained a mystery for fifty years until now. University of North Carolina School...

Countering COVID-19 Impacts on Children From Low-Income Households

May 27, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the social, educational and health care disparities already plaguing the nearly 40 million Americans the U.S. Census Bureau estimates are living...

Anxiety Needs Global Health Attention

May 27, 2020
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London, UK — Led by King’s College London in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine...

Preventing ‘Cytokine Storm’ May Ease Severe COVID-19 Symptoms

May 27, 2020
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Chevy Chase, MD — For some COVID-19 patients, the body’s immune response may be as destructive as the virus that causes the disease. The persistent high fevers, severe respiratory distress, and...

Environmental Contaminants Alter Gut Microbiome, Health

May 26, 2020
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Champaign, IL — The microbes that inhabit our bodies are influenced by what we eat, drink, breathe and absorb through our skin, and most of us are chronically exposed to natural and human-made environmental...

One Minute Electro-Optical Coronavirus Test Developed

May 24, 2020
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Beer-Sheva, Israel — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Prof. Gabby Sarusi has developed a one-minute electro-optical test of nose, throat or breath samples that will identify both asymptomatic...

Age, Male Sex, Obesity, and Underlying Illness Risk Factors for Severe COVID-19 or Death

May 24, 2020
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London, UK — Age, male sex, obesity, and underlying illness have emerged as risk factors for severe covid-19 or death in the UK, according to the largest cohort study to date published by The BMJ May...

Placentas From COVID-19-Positive Pregnant Women Show Injury

May 24, 2020
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Chicago, IL — The placentas from 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 while pregnant showed evidence of injury, according to pathological exams completed directly following birth, reports a new...

COVID-19 Cytokine Storm: Possible Mechanism for the Deadly Respiratory Syndrome

May 20, 2020
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Hokkaido, Japan —Research into how the SARS-CoV-2 virus induces death is suggesting potential treatments for its most destructive complications. Leading immunologists in Japan are proposing a possible...

COVID-19 Related Strokes, Other Neurological Impact Under Study

May 20, 2020
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Augusta, GA — Traditional stroke treatments like clot-dissolving tPA and surgical removal of big clots in the brain are good choices as well when the stroke results from SARS-CoV-2 infection, investigators...

Antibody Neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 Coronaviruses

May 20, 2020
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Seattle, WA — An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 inhibits related coronaviruses, including the cause of COVID-19. The...

Researcher Envisions Energy and Environment Landscape After COVID-19

May 20, 2020
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Stanford, CA — As people shelter in place to slow the spread of COVID-19, daily carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have dropped by as much as 17 percent globally, according to a new study by the Global...

Global Spread of Multi-Resistant Pathogen Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia

May 18, 2020
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Brunswick, Germany — S. maltophilia strains occur in several natural and human associated ecosystems. The bacterium was long regarded as relatively unproblematic but is now considered to be one of...

Critical Window for Re-Infection With HIV After Stem Cell Transplantation

May 15, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Some people with HIV need to undergo an allogeneic stem cell transplantation in order to treat different types of blood cancer. Most of the patient’s immune cells are eliminated...

Infecting the Mind: Burnout in Health Care Workers During COVID-19

May 13, 2020
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College Station, TX — Doctors and nurses across the country are experiencing occupational burnout and fatigue from the increased stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of researchers and medical...

A Scientifically Accurate Model of the Sars-CoV-2 Virus

May 13, 2020
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London, UK — The biomedical visualization studio Visual Science has created the most detailed and scientifically accurate 3D model of the full SARS-CoV-2 virus at atomic resolution. The model is based...

COVID-19 Disease Map: Researchers Coordinate International Effort

May 13, 2020
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Luxembourg — In the fight against the current pandemic, researchers of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) at the University of Luxembourg are coordinating an international collaboration...

Evidence Suggests a Small but Important Number of People Will Develop Coronavirus-Related Psychosis

May 13, 2020
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Parkville, VIC, Australia — Researchers at Orygen and La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia have completed a rapid review of contemporary epidemic and pandemic research to assess the potential...

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