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Novel Coronavirus’ Spike Protein Plays Additional Key Role in Illness

May 4, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2’s distinctive “spike” proteins help the virus infect its host by latching on to healthy cells. Now, a major new study...

How SARS-CoV-2 Hijacks Human Cells to Evade Immune System

April 30, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered one way in which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, hijacks human cell machinery to...

SARS-CoV-2 Curtails Immune Response in the Gut

April 27, 2021
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Cambridge, UK — In an effort to determine the potential for COVID-19 to begin in a person’s gut, and to better understand how human cells respond to SARS-CoV-2, the scientists used human intestinal...

Nanobodies Inhibit SARS-CoV-2 Infection

April 27, 2021
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Parkville, Australia — Australian researchers have identified neutralising nanobodies that block the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering cells in preclinical models. The discovery paves the way for further...

Among COVID-19 Survivors, an Increased Risk of Death, Serious Illness

April 23, 2021
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St. Louis, MO — As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors — even those who had mild cases — continue to manage a variety of health problems long after...

SARS-CoV-2: Infection Induces antibodies capable of killing infected cells

April 21, 2021
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Paris, France — Drawing on epidemiological field studies and the French COVID hospital cohort coordinated by Inserm, teams from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI,...

Drug Development Platform could Provide Flexible, Rapid and Targeted Antimicrobials

April 21, 2021
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Boulder, CO — When disease outbreaks happen, response time in developing and distributing treatments is crucial to saving lives. Unfortunately, developing custom drugs as countermeasures is often a...

Gut’s Immune Response in COVID-19 may not Provide Efficient Protection of Other Organs

April 20, 2021
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Erlangen, Germany — Our guts may not provide long-lasting systemic immunity from COVID-19, which is where immune cells circulate through the body to provide protection to other organs, finds a new...

Virologists Develop Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccines

April 19, 2021
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Blacksburg, VA — A candidate vaccine that could provide protection against the COVID-19 virus and other coronaviruses has shown promising results in early animal testing. The candidate coronavirus...

COVID-19: Scientists Identify Human Genes that Fight Infection

April 19, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys have identified a set of human genes that fight SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes COVID-19. Knowing which genes help control viral infection...

Simulations Reveal How Dominant SARS-CoV-2 Strain Binds to Host, Succumbs to Antibodies

April 19, 2021
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Los Alamos, NM — Large-scale supercomputer simulations at the atomic level show that the dominant G form variant of the COVID-19-causing virus is more infectious partly because of its greater ability...

Two Studies Support Key Role for Immune System in Shaping SARS-CoV-2 Evolution

April 12, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Two studies published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens provide new evidence supporting an important role for the immune system in shaping the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, the virus...

First Images of Cells Exposed to COVID-19 Vaccine Reveal Native-Like Coronavirus Spikes

April 9, 2021
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Southampton, UK — New research has for the first time compared images of the protein spikes that develop on the surface of cells exposed to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to the protein spike of the...

T Cells Recognize Recent SARS-CoV-2 Variants

April 1, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — When variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) emerged in late 2020, concern arose that they might elude protective immune responses generated by prior infection or vaccination,...

Anti-Inflammatory Drug Protects Against Lethal Inflammation from COVID-19 in Animal Models

April 1, 2021
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New York, NY — Mount Sinai researchers have found that a widely available and inexpensive drug targeting inflammatory genes has reduced morbidity and mortality in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2, the...

New Technique Provides Detailed Map of lung Pathology in COVID-19

March 30, 2021
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New York, NY — A team led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian has used advanced technology and analytics to map, at single-cell resolution, the cellular landscape of...

Protein Fingerprinting in Minutes

March 26, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Francis Crick Institute have developed a mass spectrometry-based technique capable of measuring samples containing...

‘Silencing’ Protein to Weaken COVID-19

March 25, 2021
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Oeiras, Portugal — When invaded by a virus, our body cells launch an alert to neighbouring cells to increase their antiviral defenses to prevent the infection from spreading. Some viruses, however,...

Neutrons Reveal Unpredicted Binding Between SARS-CoV-2, Hepatitis C Antiviral Drug

March 24, 2021
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Oak Ridge, TN — Scientists have found new, unexpected behaviors when SARS-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – encounters drugs known as inhibitors, which bind to certain components...

New Study Points to Novel Drug Target for Treating COVID-19

March 17, 2021
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Lucie, FL — Researchers from Cleveland Clinic’s Florida Research and Innovation Center (FRIC) have identified a potential new target for anti-COVID-19 therapies. Their findings were published...

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