World academies call for global solidarity on COVID-19 pandemic
The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) urges countries to collaborate, use and share science-based information, and help the developing worldCredit: Illustration of ...
Tag: Virology
UAB will test a COVID-19 vaccine candidate created by Altimmune Inc.
The testing at UAB will investigate immune responses to the vaccine in mice -- an important step before any Phase ...
La Jolla Institute for Immunology to host coronavirus immunotherapy clearinghouse
Led by LJI scientist Erica Ollmann Saphire, the global effort will streamline and accelerate the development of effective treatments for ...
Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance
Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges ...
Forgotten tale of phage therapy history revealed
Phage therapy was successfully used against dysentery and staphylococcal infectionsCredit: Picture: The University of Jyväskylä/Gabriel Almeida In the current situation ...
Citizen scientists are helping researchers design new drugs to combat COVID-19
Credit: Credit: Foldit/David Baker Lab The best thing most of us can do to fight COVID-19 is stay home, to ...
The genetic quest to understand COVID-19
Unlocking the genetic code of the novel coronavirus will help us prevent other diseasesCredit: University of Sydney How the novel ...
MIPT scientists explain why new dangerous viruses are so hard to identify
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office In a recently published fundamental review dedicated to the diagnostics of viral infections, a Russian ...
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 ...
ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers may increase the risk of severe COVID-19
Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention New Orleans, LA - James Diaz, MD, MHA, MPH & TM, Dr PH, ...
Study reveals how long COVID-19 remains infectious on cardboard, metal and plastic
Research suggests that people may acquire the coronavirus through the air and by touching contaminated surfacesCredit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA The virus ...
UC San Diego partners with 5 leading diagnostics manufacturers to boost COVID-19 testing
Spurred by need and urgency, unprecedented collaboration will increase testing capacity to 1,000 to 1,500 tests per day within 2 ...
COVID-19: Set up of European registry for coronavirus patients
Credit: LEOSS When do patients infected with the new coronavirus develop severe symptoms and when do they develop mild courses ...
Coronavirus SARS-CoV2: BESSY II data accelerate drug development
At the Berlin X-ray source BESSY II, researchers have decoded the protein responsible for the replication of the corona virus. ...
Portable AI device turns coughing sounds into health data for flu and pandemic forecasting
UMass Amherst computer scientists tested 'FluSense' in campus clinic waiting roomsCredit: UMass Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have invented ...
Understanding how COVID-19 affects children vital to slowing pandemic, doctors say
Credit: Sanjay Suchak | UVA Communications Though COVID-19 so far appears to be largely sparing children, researchers are cautioning that ...
Sea otters, opossums and the surprising ways pathogens move from land to sea
A new twist added to decades of sea otter researchCredit: Joe Tomoleoni/USGS A parasite known only to be hosted in ...
Viewpoint: Could disease pathogens be the dark matter behind Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: Graphic by Shireen Dooling for the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University For researchers investigating Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a ...
JNCCN: How to manage cancer care during COVID-19 pandemic
Experts from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance share lessons learned from early experiences treating people with cancer during COVID-19 outbreak via ...
UMass Amherst biostatistician lends expertise to white house coronavirus task force
New research calculates median incubation period for COVID-19Credit: UMass Amherst A University of Massachusetts Amherst biostatistician who directs the UMass-based ...