Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: NIAID A clinical trial to test the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a combination treatment regimen for coronavirus disease ...

Climate projection research may help to battle ‘snail fever’ worldwide

Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 - Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change ...

Blocking immune system pathway may stop COVID-19 infection, prevent severe organ damage

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health While the world waits eagerly for a safe ...

Severe COVID-19 infection linked to overactive immune cells

Credit: Masahiro Ono / Imperial College London Samples from the lungs of patients show a runaway immune system reaction could ...

Coronavirus antibodies last at least three months after infection, study suggests

Credit: Temerty Faculty of Medicine Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the ...

Women are more concerned about COVID-19 than men, Dartmouth-Gallup study finds

Implications for workplace reopenings and 2020 electionCredit: Table provided by Deborah Jordan Brooks and Lydia Saad. A Dartmouth-Gallup study finds ...

Urban air pollution may make COVID-19 more severe for some

Credit: The Innovation As the pandemic persists, COVID-19 has claimed more than 200,000 lives in the United States and damaged ...

First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany

Credit: Emily Julka MADISON, Wis. -- At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take ...

Trust and income inequality fueling the spread of COVID-19

Study of 84 countries links social trust and belonging to COVID-19 mortalityCredit: Source: "The trouble with trust: Time-series analysis of ...

Plant-based spray could be used in n95 masks and energy devices

Engineers invent way to spray extremely thin wires on 3D objectsCredit: Images: (left) Jonathan P. Singer; (right) Lin Lei Engineers ...

‘Brain fog’ following COVID-19 recovery may indicate PTSD

Psychiatric disorders and brain damage can share similar symptoms but require different treatments.Credit: UCLA Health A new report suggests that ...

Every COVID-19 case seems different; these scientists want to know why

Scientists in the US and UK publish first in-depth look at how CD4+ T cells fight SARS-CoV-2Credit: NIAID LA JOLLA--As ...

Community health workers could play a key part in combating COVID-19 in Brazil, study says

An article in The Lancet stresses the vulnerability of these health workers, whose readiness to counter fake news with trustworthy ...

Liquid gel in COVID patients’ lungs makes way for new treatment

Credit: Lena Mustonen In some patients who died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the ...

New research supports sofosbuvir in combination with other antivirals for COVID-19

Study demonstrates that RNA terminated by Hepatitis C Drug Sofosbuvir is more resistant to SARS-CoV-2 proofreader than RNA terminated by ...

UQ tech could offer ‘faster, cheaper and mobile’ COVID-19 diagnosis

Credit: The University of Queensland Technology that helps to quickly extract and analyse genetic material could be used for cheap, ...

Dried blood spot sampling offers inexpensive way to widen access to antibody testing for COVID-19

Credit: University of Birmingham Using dried blood spot samples (DBS) is an accurate alternative to venous blood in detecting SARS-CoV-2 ...

Supercharged clones spark scarlet fevers re-emergence

Credit: The University of Queensland A University of Queensland-led team of international researchers says supercharged "clones" of the bacteria Streptococcus ...

University of Alberta virologist awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

October 5, 2020

Michael Houghton discovered hepatitis C virus and now is developing a vaccineCredit: Photo: Michael Holly Michael Houghton was awarded the ...

‘Repliclones’ fuel perplexing persistence of HIV in the blood of some patients on therapy