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Study Sheds Light on Immune Mechanism that Triggers Cytokine Storm Typical of COVID-19

December 2, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have demonstrated for the first time that in COVID-19 patients an immune mechanism known as the inflammasome participates...

How SARS-CoV-2 Reaches the Brain

December 1, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Using post-mortem tissue samples, a team of researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have studied the mechanisms by which the novel coronavirus can reach the brains...

COVID-19 Studies should also Focus on Mucosal Immunity, Researchers Argue

November 30, 2020
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Buffalo, NY — Anyone who has undergone a nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that the virus is most easily detected in the nose and mouth. That’s why, University at Buffalo researchers...

Drug Aprotinin Inhibits Entry of SARS-CoV2 in Host Cells

November 24, 2020
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Frankfurt, Germany — The surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is studded with spike proteins. The virus needs these in order to dock onto proteins (ACE2 receptors) on the surface of the host cell. Before...

Adipose Tissue may be the Source of Inflammatory Factors that Aggravate COVID-19

November 23, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — There is growing evidence that adipose tissue plays a key role in the aggravation of COVID-19. One of the theories under investigation is that fat cells (adipocytes) act as a reservoir...

Insights on a Mechanism to Stop COVID-19 Replication

November 20, 2020
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Milan, Italy — Stopping the replication of SARS-CoV-2 is likely possible thanks to a compound called EBSELEN: a group of researchers from the Politecnico di Milano has communicated aspects relevant...

Antibody Cocktails at Low Doses could be More Effective at Treating COVID-19

November 20, 2020
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New York, NY — Pairs of antibodies may be more effective than single antibodies at preventing and treating COVID-19, according to a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Vibrations of Coronavirus Proteins may Play a Role in Infection

November 20, 2020
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Cambridge, MA — When someone struggles to open a lock with a key that doesn’t quite seem to work, sometimes jiggling the key a bit will help. Now, new research from MIT suggests that coronaviruses,...

Study reveals how smoking worsens COVID-19 infection in the airways

November 19, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human stem cells have pinpointed how smoking cigarettes causes more severe infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes...

Comprehensive Safety Testing of COVID-19 Vaccines Based on Experience with Prior Vaccines

November 19, 2020
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Washington, DC — “The urgent need for COVID-19 vaccines must be balanced with the imperative of ensuring safety and public confidence in vaccines by following the established clinical safety...

Kids Mount a COVID-19 Immune Response without Detection of SARSCoV- 2 virus

November 19, 2020
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Victoria, Australia — Children in a Melbourne family developed a COVID-19 immune response after chronic exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus from their parents, a new case report has found. The research,...

Dissecting the Immune Characteristics of Severe COVID-19 Responses

November 16, 2020
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Cambridge, UK — A team of immunology experts from research organisations in Belgium and the UK have come together to apply their pioneering research methods to put individuals’ COVID-19 response...

Two Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Shown to be Capable of Accelerating Recovery from COVID-19

November 16, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Two independent clinical studies – one by researchers at the Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC) in Ribeirão Preto, state of São Paulo (Brazil), on the monoclonal antibody eculizumab,...

Researchers Identify Promising New Compounds to Potentially Treat Novel Coronaviruses

November 16, 2020
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) and School of Pharmacy (UMSOP) have discovered new drug compounds to potentially treat the novel coronavirus that...

Peering Under the “Hood” of SARS-CoV-2

November 9, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Information from electron microscope images and protein databases has been used to develop a detailed 3D model of SARS-CoV-2, which can be readily updated as new data becomes...

Study Reveals Strategy to Create COVID-19 Drugs to Inhibit Virus’s Entry and Replication

November 6, 2020
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Tampa FL — SARS-CoV-2, the respiratory virus that causes COVID-19, attacks the body in multiple steps. Gaining entry into cells deep within the lungs and hijacking the human host cell’s machinery...

Scientists Identify Synthetic Mini-Antibody to Combat COVID-19

November 5, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells depends on interactions between the viral spike protein and the human cell surface protein ACE2. To enable the virus to hook onto the...

Study Uncovers Subset of COVID-19 Patients who Recover Quickly and Sustain Antibodies

November 4, 2020
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Boston, MA — One of the pressing questions about COVID-19 remains: How long does immunity last? One key indicator of immunity is the presence of virus-specific antibodies. Previous studies have provided...

Ultrapotent COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Designed Via Computer

November 3, 2020
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Seattle, WA — An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the pandemic coronavirus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels ten-times greater than is seen in people who have recovered...

New Cause of COVID-19 Blood Clots Identified

November 3, 2020
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Ann Arbor, MI — Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new study explains what may spark them in up to half of patients. The culprit: an autoimmune...

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