Covid-19: Future targets for treatments rapidly identified with new computer simulations
Researchers have detailed a mechanism in the distinctive corona of Covid-19 that could help scientists to rapidly find new treatments ...
Tag: Virology
Harvard’s Wyss Institute collaborates with GBS Inc. on eRapid-based COVID-19 diagnostic
Combination of the Wyss' electrochemical sensing technology with GBS's transistor technology could enable fast, multiplexed, low-cost COVID-19 biomarker analysis in ...
Ebola is a master of disguise
Faculty of Medicine team from University of Ottawa have discovered a druggable pathway the virus uses to trick its way ...
Protein sequences provide clues to how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells
Credit: Rayne Zaayman-Gallant/EMBL In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was established that SARS-CoV-2 infects cells by binding ...
Cold sores: Discovery reveals how stress, illness and even sunburn trigger flareups
Credit: Courtesy Cliffe lab at UVA Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have shed light on what ...
Caution: 1918 influenza provides warning for potential future pandemic reemergence
Credit: Siddarth Chandra EAST LANSING, Mich. - The 1918 influenza pandemic provides a cautionary tale for what the future may ...
Pooping out miracles: scientists reveal mechanism behind fecal microbiota transplantation
Osaka City University demonstrates success of fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) by revealing the coordinated effort of bacteriophages (phages) and their ...
Social distancing in the natural world: Strategies to detect and avoid disease
Credit: Dominik Scythe on Unsplash The notion of social distancing rose to public prominence approximately a year ago, when health ...
Universal access to preventive drugs could reduce HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa
Credit: Gabriel Chamie Universal HIV testing with linkage to treatment and prevention may be a promising approach to accelerate reductions ...
School closures may not reduce coronavirus deaths as much as expected
Extensive simulations seek the ideal distancing scenario to reduce severe coronavirus cases with minimal social disruptionCredit: Jiannan Yang, Qingpeng Zhang, ...
Porous materials unfavorable for coronavirus survival
Why coronavirus survives for less time on porous materials and the implications for the safety of different materials in schools, ...
Blueprint for understanding the pandemic
Credit: ETH Zurich /Giulia Marthaler Scientific and public health experts have been raising the alarm for decades, imploring public officials ...
Covid-19 vs conservation – how the northern white rhino rescue programme overcame challenges
Credit: www.biorescue.org/Leibniz-IZW The BioRescue research project, a programme aiming at saving the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, exemplifies the challenges ...
Study finds Americans went out more after face mask mandates
hether this has exposed Americans to more risk is still a questionCredit: iStock Face masks mandates have led people to ...
HIV: an innovative therapeutic breakthrough to optimize the immune system
A therapeutic approach to restore the effectiveness of immune cellsCredit: INRS Prompted by the need to improve conventional treatments for ...
Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Dr Robert Beyer Global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have made southern China a hotspot for bat-borne ...
COVID-19 vaccine from new vaccine platform effective in mice
Credit: John Sennett. It is necessary to develop additional COVID-19 vaccines, as different vaccine approaches have their advantages and disadvantages ...
City, University of London academic tracks COVID-19 dark web marketplaces
In new research, Dr. Andrea Baronchelli and colleagues highlight the importance of the continuous monitoring of dark web marketplaces (DWMs), ...
SARS-CoV-2 under the helium ion microscope for the first time
Bielefeld researchers provide 3D images of coronavirusesCredit: Photo left: Bielefeld University/M.-D. Müller, photo right: Thomas Popien Scientists at Bielefeld University's ...
How SARS-CoV-2 mutates to escape antibody binding
A scientific detective story unearths how SARS-CoV-2 evolves new variants that evade antibodiesCredit: Kevin McCarthy and Paul Duprex PITTSBURGH, Feb. ...
