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SARS-CoV-2

New Tool Predicts Changes that may Make COVID Variants more Infectious

October 4, 2021
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University Park, PA — As SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve, new variants are expected to arise that may have an increased ability to infect their hosts and evade the hosts’ immune systems. The first...

Watching SARS-CoV-2 Spread in Animal Models in Real Time

September 30, 2021
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San Antonio, TX — A version of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, has been successfully modified to glow brightly in cells and animal tissues, providing a real-time way to track the...

Researchers Explain How Nanomaterial Aids Antibody Response, Study It as Antibody Factory

September 28, 2021
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Ames, IA — The researchers’ original task was to figure out how certain polymer nanomaterials provided for a low-inflammatory immune response and yet were able to boost antibody production as part...

Microneedle Patch Delivers COVID-19 DNA Vaccine; Doesn’t Require Cold Storage

September 28, 2021
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Beijing, China — More than 2 billion people worldwide are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. However, many who live in resource-limited countries haven’t been able to get vaccines, partly because these...

Scientists Develop Faster COVID-19 Test

August 23, 2021
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Bethesda, MD — Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed a new sample preparation method to detect SARS-Cov-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The method bypasses extraction...

Fast, Accurate System for Quickly Solving Stubborn RNA Structures from Pond Scum, the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and More

August 19, 2021
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Menlo Park, CA — The single-stranded genetic material RNA is best known for guiding the assembly of proteins in our cells and carrying the genetic code for viruses like SARS-CoV-2 and HIV. But 40 years...

Understanding Lung Damage in Patients with COVID-19

August 17, 2021
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Berlin, Germany — Researchers from around the globe have spent the past 18 months trying to understand COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Capable of causing acute lung failure,...

Biosensor Permits Ultra-Fast and Cheap Detection of SARS-CoV-2

August 12, 2021
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São Paulo, Brazil — The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have stimulated innovation on several fronts. One is the development of low-cost methods of clinical diagnosis. Genosensors are a case...

3D “Assembloid” Shows How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Brain Cells

July 21, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential...

Rapid Method to Quantify Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2

July 21, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — Scientists have developed a rapid, highly accurate test to detect antibodies against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 in human serum, opening a new avenue for understanding the full...

Study Reveals How Our Immune System Reacts to COVID-19 Variants

July 8, 2021
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Sydney, Australia — Australian scientists researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have revealed that those infected by early variants in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however,...

Study Shows Laboratory Developed Protein Spikes Consistent with COVID-19 Virus

July 7, 2021
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Southampton, UK — A new international study has found that the key properties of the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 are consistent with those of several laboratory-developed protein...

COVID-19 Dual-Antibody Therapies Effective Against Variants in Animal Study

June 22, 2021
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St. Louis, MO — COVID-19 therapies made from antibodies often are given to patients who are at high risk of severe illness and hospitalization. However, there have been nagging questions about whether...

SARS-CoV-2 Infections may Trigger Antibody Responses Against Multiple Virus Proteins

June 22, 2021
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Madison, WI — All coronaviruses produce four primary structural proteins and multiple nonstructural proteins. However, the majority of antibody-based SARS-CoV-2 research has focused on the spike and...

AI Predicts How Patients with Viral Infections, Including COVID-19, will Fare

June 14, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to sift through terabytes of gene expression data — which genes...

Vital Tool to Study Virus Evolution in the Test Tube

June 10, 2021
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Brisbane, Australia — Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge. The...

SARS-CoV-2 RNA Discovery Unlocks New Potential Treatments

May 27, 2021
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Oxford, UK — An international and multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Glasgow, and University of Heidelberg, has uncovered the interactions that SARS-CoV-2...

Antibodies that Enhance SARS-CoV-2 Infection — A Possible Factor for Severe COVID-19

May 25, 2021
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Osaka, Japan — A research group from Osaka University led by Professor Hisashi Arase and consisting of researchers from the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, the Institute for Protein Research,...

Novel Defense Mechanism for SARS-CoV-2 Discovered

May 24, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — Scientists from Hokkaido University have discovered a novel defensive response to SARS-CoV-2 that involves the viral pattern recognition receptor RIG-I. Upregulating expression of...

Modelling can Predict Mutation “Hotspots” and Antibody Escapers in SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein

May 21, 2021
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New York, NY — SARS-CoV-2 has evolved to acquire mutations on the spike protein–the part of the virus that protrudes from its surface and latches onto cells to infect them–that enhance...

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