Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 14, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 85 No new country/territory/area reported…
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Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 (the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus), scientists have been scrambling to identify the species of origin to understand…
Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 13, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 84 No new country/territory/area reported…
Arizona State University researcher explores pests, parasites, diseases on a global scale. Countries looking to contain the spread of harmful species and diseases like COVID-19…
A team of Chinese scientists has reported the high-resolution crystal structure of the main protease (Mpro) of the COVID-19 virus and has identified drugs that…
The antibody test developed at Stanford Medicine relies on enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technology and is conducted using an ELISA plate, such as the one shown…
An analysis by two Stanford Medicine researchers challenges the assumption that people are unlikely to have COVID-19 if they have another type of viral respiratory…
Mathematical modeling can take what information is reported about the coronavirus, including the clearly underreported numbers of cases, factor in knowns like the density and…
Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 12, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 83 No new country/territory/area reported…
SwRI-developed software Rhodium helps SwRI scientists discover nerve agent antidotes that penetrate the central nervous system. This project is part of a U.S. Department of…
Dead bats for sale hang in an Indonesian market. Credit: UC Davis The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19…
A 3D print of a spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. University of Iowa and University of Georgia are…
Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 6, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 77 One new country/territory/area reported…
Ivermectin Is Being Tested as a Possible Treatment for COVID-19, But That’s No Reason to Buy It Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as…
Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 5, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 76 One new country/territory/area reported…
Researchers are using Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source, a massive kilometer-long accelerator, to analyze proteins that could lead to coronavirus treatments or vaccines. Credit: Argonne National…
Artists impression of “killing” the COVID-19 coronavirus. While shown to be effective in the lab environment, Ivermectin cannot be used in humans for COVID-19 until…
Coronavirus World Map: Distribution of COVID-19 cases as of April 4, 2020. Credit: WHO WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 75 One new country/territory/area reported…
Postdoctoral fellows Jenny Hamilton and Enrique Lin Shiao with an automated liquid-handling robot (Hamilton STARlet) that will be used to analyze swabs from patients to…