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COVID-19 Pandemic

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...

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...

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...

Clinical-Grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19

July 1, 2020
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Evanston, IL — Although it might be tempting to rely on your fitness tracker to catch early signs of COVID-19, Northwestern University researchers caution that consumer wearables are not sophisticated...

Countries With Early Adoption of Face Masks Showed Modest COVID-19 Infection Rates, Says Study

June 26, 2020
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New York, NY — Regions with an early interest in face masks had milder COVID-19 epidemics, according to a new letter-to-the-editor published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care...

Statin Use Is Linked to Lower Death Rate in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

June 24, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — The use of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins is associated with a lower death rate and a lower incidence of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Coronavirus...

Bacterial Predator Could Help Reduce COVID-19 Deaths

June 24, 2020
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Birmingham, UK — A type of virus that preys on bacteria could be harnessed to combat bacterial infections in patients whose immune systems have been weakened by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the...

Researchers Develop Low-Cost, Easy-To-Use Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19 Patients

June 24, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator...

Global Team Develops Open-Source N95 Respirator

June 19, 2020
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Amherst, MA — In one of the latest COVID-19 response projects at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADDFab) laboratory is collaborating with a global...

Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic Through Testing

June 19, 2020
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Chevy Chase, MD — The world is now in the grips of a historic pandemic. The death toll from the novel coronavirus has climbed to more than 117,000 in the United States and 448,000 around the world....

MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against the Worst Symptoms of COVID-19, Study Reveals

June 19, 2020
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Washington, DC — Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen septic inflammation associated with COVID-19 infection, say a team of experts...

The Rafts Used by Viruses

June 17, 2020
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Trento, Italy — Rescue rafts are a lifesaver, although other types of rafts may put our lives in danger: that is the case with ‘lipid rafts’, which are exploited by coronaviruses to attack...

Cellular Nanosponges Could Soak up SARS-CoV-2

June 17, 2020
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Washington, DC — Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Many of these efforts target a specific part of...

Researchers Create New Type of COVID-19 Antibody Test

June 12, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues with many thousands of new infections reported each day, there is a need for widely applicable surveillance testing to gain a better understanding...

How COVID-19 Has Altered Sleep in the United States and Europe

June 10, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — Stay-at-home orders and “lockdowns” related to the COVID-19 pandemic have had a major impact on the daily lives of people around the world and that includes the way that...

Immune From Chronic Stress? Limit Inflammatory Signalling to Specific Brain Circuits

June 5, 2020
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Boca Raton, FL — Anxiety and depression are significantly heightened during times of great stress such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, psychosocial stress is a major contributing factor to...

Reducing Severe Breathlessness and Psychological Trauma in COVID-19 ARDS Survivors

June 5, 2020
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New York, NY — A new paper published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society examines ventilation and medication strategies that can help avoid psychological trauma for severe COVID-19...

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