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Leprosy drug may help fight COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19, is not the only zoonotic coronavirus. In fact, it is the third to have emerged since the turn of the century. It was preceded by severe respiratory syndrome (SARS) in...

30 March, 2021

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Virus related to SARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Southeast Asia

It is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle. Pieces scattered around the world are being collected in search of a suspect in the largest health crisis to ever hit the globe in the past century. With the...

1 March, 2021

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Virus-specific cellular immunity may be essential for long-term protection against SARS-CoV-2

The major clinical manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection include fever, dry cough, fatigue, and other respiratory symptoms. Recent studies show that over 60% of...

24 February, 2021

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Virus mutations down to chance, in more ways than one

The emergence of several, more infectious strains of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has worried governments and scientists, who are investigating how and why the virus became more transmissible. Like all viruses, SARS...

25 January, 2021

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Researchers determine how the SARS-CoV-2 virus hijacks and rapidly causes damage to human lung cells

In a multi-group collaborative involving the National Emerging Infectious Disease Laboratories (NEIDL), the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), and the Center for Network Systems Biology (CNSB), scientists have...

5 December, 2020

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Only 1 of 32 COVID survivors testing positive had live virus, study revealed

A JAMA Internal Medicine research letter finds that 18% of recovered COVID-19 patients test positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but only 3% (1 of 32) carry replicating virus in their respiratory...

17 November, 2020

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Sorting out viruses with machine learning

The ongoing global pandemic has created an urgent need for rapid tests that can diagnose the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19, and distinguish it from other respiratory viruses. Now...

13 November, 2020

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5 factors that affect our COVID-19 vaccine response, according to this expert

The Oxford vaccine trial at the center of safety concerns highlights the idea that people’s immune systems respond to vaccines differently. We don’t yet know whether reports of immune complications in one or two trial...

15 September, 2020

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Preparing pandemic vaccine capacity

Rapid scale-up to billions of doses requires collaborative, all-out efforts by innovators, their manufacturing partners, and the entire supply chain. The biopharmaceutical industry is working at unprecedented speed to...

19 August, 2020

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COVID-19 vaccine innovation could dramatically speed up worldwide production

Responding to a need to quickly develop billions of doses of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, a scientific team at The University of Texas at Austin has successfully redesigned a key protein from the coronavirus, and the...

4 August, 2020

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