New drug candidate reawakens sleeping HIV in hopes of functional cure
Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA JOLLA, CALIF. - June 23, 2020 - Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys ...
Tag: Virology
First COVID-19 vaccine trial in South Africa begins
The first participants in South Africa's first clinical trial for a vaccine against Covid-19 will be vaccinated this weekCredit: WITS ...
Lehigh University awarded state grant to develop coronavirus-killing functional material
With support from Manufacturing PA Innovation Program, industry-academic partnership through Lehigh's Institute for Functional Materials and Devices (I-FMD) will work ...
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic through testing
Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH The world is now in the grips of a historic pandemic. ...
Global team develops open-source N95 respirator
UMass Amherst lab produces 3D prototype pieces for design consultancyCredit: UMass Amherst In one of the latest COVID-19 response projects ...
New research shows tiny, decoy ‘sponges’ attract coronavirus away from lung cells
Nanotechnology tested at BU's NEIDL stops SARS-CoV-2 from infecting cells and replicatingCredit: Photo by Sierra Downs, courtesy of the Griffiths ...
Research grant for biochemist to go ‘back to the future’ to get to grips with COVID-19
Dr Cooper is the academic lead for a project titled SARS-CoV-2 in silico protein modelling and determination of novel therapeutic ...
Detecting antibodies with glowing proteins, thread and a smartphone
Credit: Adapted from ACS Sensors 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00564 To defend the body, the immune system makes proteins known as antibodies ...
Cellular nanosponges could soak up SARS-CoV-2
Credit: Adapted from Nano Letters 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02278 Scientists are working overtime to find an effective treatment for COVID-19, the ...
The Lancet Infectious Diseases: UK modelling study finds case isolation and contact tracing vital to COVID-19 epidemic control
Combining self-isolation and contact tracing with moderate physical distancing measures, such as limiting social gatherings and remote working, could enable ...
How COVID-19 affects pediatric patients
Credit: Gerd Altmann, Pixabay New insights into the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...
Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks
Credit: Russell Watkins/UK Department for International Development, Flickr A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available ...
Digital strategies to fight COVID-19
Luxembourgish expertise in Digital Health recognised at the international levelCredit: Copyright LIH As the first pandemic in the digital era, ...
Overlooked: The role of bacterial viruses in plant health
Credit: University of Groningen We know how important bacteria and fungi are for the health of plants. In marine environments ...
Flushing toilets create clouds of virus-containing particles
Coronavirus could be transmitted through a long-lasting cloud of virus-containing aerosol droplets ejected from a flushing toilet.Credit: J.-X. Wang WASHINGTON, ...
World’s most complete health analysis of nesting sea turtles conducted in Florida
Study provides critical data for sea turtle conservation and population recoveryCredit: Jennifer Reilly While it's only about a 10-kilometer stretch, ...
The Lancet Global Health: Estimates suggest one in five people worldwide have an underlying health condition that could increase their risk of severe COVID-19 if infected
Credit: The Lancet Global Health The share of the population at increased risk (with at least one underlying health condition ...
NIH launches analytics platform to harness COVID-19 patient data to speed treatments
Credit: National Center for Translational Sciences The National Institutes of Health has launched a centralized, secure enclave to store and ...
A raft that won’t save you
New research investigates the role of lipid rafts in virus infiltrationCredit: Carotenuto, Lunghi et al. PITTSBURGH (June 15, 2020) -- ...
Together they stay alive longer
How tuberculosis pathogens protect themselves from drying out in the airCredit: Elisabeth Pfrommer, Heinrich-Pette-Institute / FZ Borstel Hamburg/Borstel/Leipzig. The tuberculosis ...