Immunology
The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment
The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spilloverCredit: Christine K. Johnson, UC Davis As COVID-19 spreads across...
Artificial intelligence enables COVID-19 lung imaging analysis at UC San Diego Health
With support from Amazon Web Services, health care providers are using AI in a clinical research study aimed at speeding...
CUNY New York City COVID-19 survey week 4
New Yorkers seem resigned to a long siege as COVID-19 infection, job loss, food access challenges, depression, anxiety, and hopelessness...
Development of new system for combatting COVID-19 that can be used for other viruses
Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas - A multidisciplinary team at The University of Texas...
Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome
Captive apes' microbiomes more similar to some humans' than to wild apes'Credit: GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE APE PROJECT Apes in U.S. zoos...
Tested and testing: UC San Diego Health expands COVID-19 diagnostics
Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences From the beginning, the ability of front line clinicians to test patients for COVID-19...
Trial for potential coronavirus treatment is underway at Montefiore and Einstein
Experimental therapy might help people with serious COVID-19 complicationsCredit: Albert Einstein College of Medicine April 3, 2020--(BRONX, NY)-- Montefiore Health...
Closing in on a COVID-19 vaccine
Rapid progress in South AustraliaCredit: Flinders University South Australian researchers working with Oracle Cloud technology and vaccine technology developed by...
Scientists show how parasitic infection causes seizures, psychiatric illness for some
Fralin Biomedical Research Institute scientists show how infection rewires brainCredit: Virginia Tech Think about traffic flow in a city -...
Checklist for emergency department team’s COVID-19 surge
Translating disaster medicine theory into practiceCredit: European Centers for Disease Control The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to many health...
The architecture of a ‘shape-shifting’ norovirus
Credit: University of Leeds Every picture tells a story... none more so than this detailed visualisation of a strain of...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: Comprehensive COVID-19 hospitalisation and death rate estimates help countries best prepare as global pandemic unfolds
The death rate from confirmed COVID-19 cases is estimated at 1.38%, while the overall death rate, which includes unconfirmed cases,...
The Grainger College of Engineering and Carle Health demonstrate working prototype of emergency vent
The Illinois RapidVent emergency ventilator was developed in less than a week, and preliminary tests show performance equivalent to commercial...
Edmonton company Entos developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19
University of Alberta cancer researcher John Lewis's health-care biotechnology company is working on a vaccine to be delivered directly into...
Self-sanitizing face mask project receives NSF RAPID grant
Chemically modified mask design receives NSF RAPID grantCredit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. -- A Northwestern University researcher has received funding...
Engineers model mutations causing drug resistance
Credit: Scott Leighow, Penn State Whether it is a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, or cancer cells that no longer react...
COVID-19 workers get training to protect their own health
Credit: NIEHS Today, the National Institutes of Health will launch a new website with important educational resources for Coronavirus workers...
Graphene underpins a new platform to selectively ID deadly strains of bacteria
Prototype developed by Boston College-led team demonstrates the first selective, electrical detection of two pathogenic bacterial speciesCredit: Kenneth Burch, Boston...
Recyclable nano-fiber filtered face masks a boon for supply fiasco?
A KAIST team develops washable nanofiber fast maskCredit: KAIST Wearing a face mask is a common sight in Korea during...
New coronavirus stable for hours on surfaces
SARS-CoV-2 stability similar to original SARS virusCredit: NIAID RML WHAT: The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable...