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Guidelines on Caring for ICU Patients With COVID-19

April 1, 2020
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Hamilton, ON, Canada — An international team including McMaster University researchers has come together to issue guidelines for health-care workers treating intensive care unit (ICU) patients with...

The Architecture of a ‘Shape-Shifting’ Norovirus

April 1, 2020
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Leeds, UK — Every picture tells a story… none more so than this detailed visualization of a strain of the norovirus. Created from 13,000 separate images taken by an electron microscope, it reveals...

The Data Speak: Stronger Pandemic Response Yields Better Economic Recovery

April 1, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — With much of the U.S. in shutdown mode to limit the spread of the COVID-19 disease, a debate has sprung up about when the country might “reopen” commerce, to limit economic fallout...

COVID-19 Survivors Needed for Antibody Study

April 1, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Antibodies that are circulating in the blood of patients who’ve recovered from COVID-19 may serve as the key to developing an effective vaccine against the virus. That’s why a team...

Your Computer Can Help Scientists Seek Potential COVID-19 Treatments

April 1, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Under a collaboration between IBM and Scripps Research, anyone in the world with a PC, laptop or Mac and an internet connection will be able to help scientists seek chemical compounds...

Scientists Tap Unused Energy Source to Power Smart Sensor Networks

April 1, 2020
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State College, PA — The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are present all around us. Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable...

Targeting a Transporter to Treat SHH Medulloblastoma

April 1, 2020
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Memphis, TN — Investigators at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that the ABCC4 transporter is critical to the SHH signalling pathway in the brain tumour medulloblastoma. This...

Innovators Moving to Fast-Track COVID-19 Diagnostic, Therapeutic Solutions

April 1, 2020
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West Lafayette, IN — As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the U.S. and the world, Purdue University scientists are working to move solutions to diagnose and treat the virus to the marketplace...

Studies Use SIRD Model to Forecast COVID-19 Spread

April 1, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — Two studies of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak recently published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. The first study, published March 31, 2020, was conducted by Constantinos...

Institute Receives Grant to Host Coronavirus Immunotherapy Clearinghouse

April 1, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) has been awarded a $1.73 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a Coronavirus Immunotherapy Consortium (CoVIC)...

New Artificial Intelligence System can Empower Medical Professionals in Diagnosing Skin Diseases

March 31, 2020
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Seoul, South Korea — Researchers in Korea have developed a deep learning-based artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that can accurately classify cutaneous skin disorders, predict malignancy, suggest...

Cells must Age for Muscles to Regenerate in Muscle-Degenerating Diseases

March 31, 2020
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Sapporo, Japan — Exercise can only improve strength in muscle-degenerating diseases when a specific type of muscle cell ages, report a Hokkaido University researcher and colleagues with Sapporo Medical...

New Metabolism Discovered in Bacteria

March 31, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — They make sauerkraut sour, turn milk into yogurt and cheese, and give rye bread its intensive flavour: bacteria that ferment nutrients instead of using oxygen to extract their...

Artificial Intelligence can Speed Up Detection of Stroke

March 31, 2020
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Turku, Finland — Timely detection and accurate segmentation of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) lesions on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) are essential for the triaging patient for endovascular therapy....

Heart Attack on a Chip: Scientists Model Conditions of Ischemia on a Microfluidic Device

March 31, 2020
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Medford, MA — Researchers led by biomedical engineers at Tufts University invented a microfluidic chip containing cardiac cells that is capable of mimicking hypoxic conditions following a heart attack...

Experimental AI Tool Predicts Which COVID-19 Patients Develop Respiratory Disease

March 31, 2020
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New York, NY — An artificial intelligence tool accurately predicted which patients newly infected with the COVID-19 virus would go on to develop severe respiratory disease, a new study found. The...

Hidden Messages in Protein Blueprints

March 31, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Heidelberg Institute of Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine (HI-STEM)* and the Max Planck Institute...

Phage Capsid Against Unfluenza: Perfectly Fitting Inhibitor Prevents Viral Infection

March 31, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — A new approach brings the hope of new therapeutic options for suppressing seasonal influenza and avian flu: On the basis of an empty – and therefore non-infectious – shell...

Resarchers Find Way to Improve Cancer Outcomes by Examining Patients’ Genes

March 31, 2020
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Charlottesville, VA — By mining a vast trove of genetic data, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are enhancing doctors’ ability to treat cancer, predict patient outcomes...

Evidence Suggests That ACE Inhibitors and Angiotensin Receptor Blockers may Improve Prognosis in COVID-19 Hypertensive Patients

March 31, 2020
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Rochester, MN — Patients with underlying health conditions such as hypertension, heart failure, and chronic kidney disease are at increased risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Physicians,...

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