Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, an associate professor of immunobiology at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, gets blood drawn to take the antibody test he…
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President Donald J. Trump works in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD on Saturday, October 3, 2020, after…
Being previously infected with coronaviruses that cause the “common cold” may decrease the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections, according to the…
Patients of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for COVID-19, while patients of Asian ethnicity have an increased risk of dying…
Coronavirus antibodies can last at least three months after a person becomes infected with the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study published…
President Donald J. Trump, joined by Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense Mark…
In this image, a T-cell receptor is on the lower side, and the major histocompatibility complex located on the upper side, presents the antigen, colored…
Low glucocorticoid receptor (GR) expression led to excessive inflammation and lung damage by neutrophils through enhancing the expression of CXCL8 and other cytokines. Credit: Professor…
Nanoparticles coated in an antigen stick to red blood cells strongly enough to resist being sheared off in the lungs, allowing them to reach the…
A cocktail of powerful antibodies identified in recovered patients locks the coronavirus infection machinery, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 attachment to host cells, and protects animals challenged with…
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have identified highly effective antibodies against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and are…
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), composed of DNA (blue), Cit-H3 (red), and MPO (green), in the lung of a patient who succumbed to COVID-19. Credit: ©…
Houston Methodist became the first academic medical center in the nation to infuse critically ill COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma donated from recovered patients, which…
As the flu season approaches, a strained public health system may have a surprising ally — the common cold virus. Rhinovirus, the most frequent cause…
Study to test Eli Lilly and Company’s LY-CoV555, a human monoclonal antibody against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, will examine its ability to combat the virus…
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a small neutralizing antibody, a so-called nanobody, that has the capacity to block SARS-CoV-2 from entering human…
Flu season comes around like clockwork every year, and sooner or later everyone gets infected. The annual flu shot is a key part of public…
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T cell, a type of lymphocyte that plays a central role in the immune response. Credit: NIAID New findings…
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of…
Sweden’s policy of allowing the controlled spread of Covid-19 viral infection among the population has so far failed to deliver the country’s previously stated goal…