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The Odd Structure of ORF8: Mapping the Coronavirus Protein Linked to Disease Severity

January 15, 2021
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Berkeley, CA — A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to...

New Promising Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2

January 15, 2021
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Bonn, Germany — Antibodies are an important weapon in the immune system’s defense against infections. They bind to the surface structures of bacteria or viruses and prevent their replication....

SARS-CoV-2 can infect neurons and damage brain tissue, study indicates

January 15, 2021
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New York, NY — Using both mouse and human brain tissue, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel...

Scientists Identify ‘Immune Cop’ that Detects SARS-CoV-2

January 15, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified the sensor in human lungs that detects SARS-CoV-2 and signals that it’s time to mount an antiviral...

Nanoparticle Immunization Technology could Protect Against Many Strains of Coronaviruses

January 15, 2021
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Pasadena, CA — The SARS-CoV-2 virus that is causing the COVID-19 pandemic is just one of many different viruses in the coronavirus family. Many of these are circulating in populations of animals like...

Detecting COVID-19 Antibodies in 10-12 Seconds

January 13, 2021
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Pittsburgh, PA — Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the...

Nanoparticle Vaccine for COVID-19

January 12, 2021
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Stanford, CA — Before the pandemic, the lab of Stanford University biochemist Peter S. Kim focused on developing vaccines for HIV, Ebola and pandemic influenza. But, within days of closing their campus...

New Findings Help Explain How COVID-19 Overpowers the Immune System

January 12, 2021
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Los Angeles, CA — Seeking to understand why COVID-19 is able to suppress the body’s immune response, new research from the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology suggests that mitochondria are...

Natural Products with Potential Efficacy Against Lethal Viruses

January 11, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego have broken down the genomic and...

Research Strongly Suggests COVID-19 Virus Enters the Brain

December 18, 2020
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Seattle, WA — More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue. And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2...

Study Shows Endothelial Cell Targeting could Help Fight Covid-19 Symptoms

December 15, 2020
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Stony Brook, NY — For Covid-19 patients with serious lung disease, targeting endothelial cells -cells that comprise the blood vessel wall which regulate oxygen exchange between airways and the bloodstream-...

Researchers Identify Critical Molecules that Coronaviruses Hijack to Infect Human Cells

December 10, 2020
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San Francisco, CA — When a coronavirus–including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19–infects someone, it hijacks the person’s cells, co-opting their molecular machinery for its own...

Scientists Discover How COVID-19 Virus Causes Multiple Organ Failure in Mice

December 8, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA researchers are the first to create a version of COVID-19 in mice that shows how the disease damages organs other than the lungs. Using their model, the scientists discovered...

Protein Storytelling to Address the Pandemic

December 7, 2020
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Austin, TX — In the last five decades, we’ve learned a lot about the secret lives of proteins — how they work, what they interact with, the machinery that makes them function — and...

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...

Chemical Compounds in Foods can Inhibit a Key SARS-CoV-2 Enzyme

December 1, 2020
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Raleigh, NC — Chemical compounds in foods or beverages like green tea, muscadine grapes and dark chocolate can bind to and block the function of a particular enzyme, or protease, in the SARS-CoV-2...

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...

A Sulfur Molecule to Block the Coronavirus

November 23, 2020
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Geneva, Switzerland — The cell membrane is impermeable to viruses: to get inside and infect a cell, they use a range of strategies to exploit the cellular and biochemical properties of the membranes....

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