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Researchers Develop a Computer Simulator That Recreates the Spread of COVID-19 in Europe

April 3, 2020
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Madrid, Spain — A team of Spanish researchers have designed and validated a simulator to enable study of the evolution of the COVID-19 illness in Spain and in all Europe, based on parameters such as...

Trial Drug Can Significantly Block Early Stages of COVID-19 in Engineered Human Tissues

April 3, 2020
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Vancouver, BC, Canada — An international team led by University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Josef Penninger has found a trial drug that effectively blocks the cellular door SARS-CoV-2 uses to...

Blocking Iron Transport could Stop Tuberculosis

April 2, 2020
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Zürich, Switzerland — One of the most devastating pathogens that lives inside human cells is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus that causes tuberculosis. According to the World Health Organization,...

Fish have Diverse, Distinct Gut Microbiomes, Study Finds

April 2, 2020
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Boothbay, ME — The rich biodiversity of coral reefs even extends to microbial communities within fish, according to new research. The study in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences reports...

Global Nuclear Medicine Community Shares COVID-19 Strategies and Experiences

April 1, 2020
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Reston, VA — In an effort to provide safer working environments for nuclear medicine professionals and their patients, clinics across five continents have shared their approaches to containing the...

New CT Scoring Criteria for Timely Diagnosis, Treatment of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

April 1, 2020
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Leesburg, VA — Updated CT scoring criteria that considers lobe involvement, as well as changes in CT findings, could quantitatively and accurately evaluate the progression of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...

Genetic Testing Service for New Coronavirus Launched

April 1, 2020
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New Brunswick, NJ — Rutgers’ RUCDR Infinite Biologics has launched a test for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and is using its automation experience and infrastructure to test as many as tens of thousands...

China’s Control Measures May Have Prevented 700,000 COVID-19 Cases

April 1, 2020
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University Park, PA — China’s control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic may have delayed the spread of the virus to cities outside of Wuhan by several days and, by interrupting...

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...

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 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...

COVID-19 Linked to Cardiac Injury, Worse Outcomes for Patients With Heart Conditions

March 28, 2020
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Houston, TX — COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a review...

An Experimental Peptide Could Block COVID-19

March 28, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — In hopes of developing a possible treatment for Covid-19, a team of MIT chemists has designed a drug candidate that they believe may block coronaviruses’ ability to enter human cells....

Institute Invites Public to Join App-Based Detect Study, Leveraging Wearable Data to Potentially Flag Onset of Viral Illnesses

March 28, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — The Scripps Research Translational Institute has launched an app-based research program that will analyze participants’ wearable health data—including heart rates, sleep and activity...

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