Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

July 24, 2020

Discovery lays groundwork for designing novel antiviral drugsCredit: UT Health San Antonio With an alarm code, we can enter a ...

COVID-19 vaccine innovation could dramatically speed up worldwide production

July 23, 2020

Credit: University of Texas at Austin. Responding to a need to quickly develop billions of doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, ...

Lone Star ticks in Illinois can carry, transmit Heartland virus

July 23, 2020

Symptoms may be mistaken for COVID-19; hospitalizations are commonCredit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers have confirmed that ...

Kidney transplantation between people with HIV is safe, NIH study finds

July 23, 2020

Multicenter HOPE Act study expands pool of available kidneysCredit: NIAID WHAT: Kidney transplantation from deceased donors with HIV to people ...

New CCC19 data offer insights on COVID treatments for people with cancer

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Newly released data on treatment outcomes of people with cancer diagnosed with COVID-19 reveal a ...

Shrinking (ultra)violet

NIST researchers describe unique system for testing how well narrow wavebands of UV light kill germsCredit: T. Larason/NIST While awaiting ...

Rapid PCR testing for COVID-19 being trialled in London care homes

In a UK-first, Queen Mary University of London is leading a clinical trial of a new rapid COVID-19 testing system ...

Siblings can also differ from one another in bacteria

Credit: NIAID In human reproduction, the genes of the mother and father are combined and mixed in countless variations. Their ...

Neutralizing antibodies isolated from COVID-19 patients may suppress virus

Credit: David Ho / Columbia University Irving Medical Center Researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center have isolated antibodies from ...

Study suggests increased risks for COVID-19 patients who smoke, vape

TTUHSC researchers look for links between virus and strokeCredit: TTUHSC As the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or COVID-19 has unfurled its tentacles ...

Scientists publish findings from 1st statewide COVID-19 random sample study in US

Credit: Photos by Liz Kaye, Indiana University INDIANAPOLIS -- The results of the first statewide random sample study in the ...

Lab-made virus mimics COVID-19 virus

Is safer to work with, can aid efforts to find drugs, vaccinesCredit: Matt Miller Airborne and potentially deadly, the virus ...

No single sign or symptom is sufficient to rule in or rule out community acquired pneumonia

Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- While the history and ...

Freeze-framing the shape-shifting SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Cryogenic electron microscopy captures the spike in its 'before' and 'after' shapesCredit: Image created with Molecular Maya by Jonathan Khao, ...

Researchers develop new tools to rapidly test activity of anti-coronavirus antibodies

Credit: Schmidt et al., 2020 Researchers at The Rockefeller University in New York have developed new tools to rapidly test ...

Sanford Burnham Prebys receives CIRM award for COVID-19 research

Researchers will use 'mini lungs in a dish' to test promising drug candidatesCredit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sanford ...

Protecting our homes from COVID-19 means “protecting home for COVID-19 data at CDC”

New diagnostic test for heart failure patients could also help COVID-19 patients

New coronavirus and cardiovascular disease are linked thanks to ACE2 enzyme and may respond to same treatmentsCredit: Richard Siemens (Edmonton, ...

Immunotherapy safe for patients with COVID-19, cancer

Initial findings from UC study show that immunotherapy for cancer won't worsen complications for patients with the disease and COVID-19Credit: ...

Parasitic worm venom evades human immune system