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…
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Remdesivir was developed for Ebola and has antiviral activity for coronaviruses. Northwestern Medicine has enrolled its first participants in a new international clinical drug trial for…
In cell cultures analyzed in the current study, hrsACE2 inhibited the coronavirus load by a factor of 1,000-5,000. Credit: IMBA/Tibor Kulcsar “There is hope for…
Hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses will need to be produced worldwide, so the researchers made sure up front that their process was scalable.…
From developing vaccines to helping governments keep communities informed, a number of companies with MIT ties are working to address problems brought on by the…
Phage shell docks on and inhibits the influenza virus. Credit: Barth van Rossum / FMP A new approach brings the hope of new therapeutic options…
How At Risk Are You of Getting a Virus on an Airplane? New ‘CALM’ model on passenger movement developed using Frontera supercomputer. Fair or not,…
The virus that causes COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, shown here in an electron microscope image, can trigger severe cases of infection in some younger patients. Studying…
The first situation to simulate is of someone coughing indoors. Photo: Petteri Peltonen / Aalto University The researchers are using a supercomputer to carry out…
Constantly being told to wash your hands? Us, too. So we’re diving into the chemistry behind why soap is so effective against viruses like the…
Emerging infectious diseases have become more likely partly as a result of how people move around the planet and relate to the natural world. Emerging…
COVID-19 can have fatal consequences for people with underlying cardiovascular disease and cause cardiac injury even in patients without underlying heart conditions, according to a…
Research suggests that people may acquire the coronavirus through the air and by touching contaminated surfaces. The virus that causes COVID-19 remains for several hours…
Pangolin. As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus’ genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are…
Schematic representation of the coronavirus protease. The enzyme comes as a dimer consisting of two identical molecules. A part of the dimer is shown in…
Chinese case study suggests COVID-19 is not transmitted from pregnant mothers to newborns. Four babies born in a hospital in Wuhan, the epicenter of the…
Steven L. Zeichner, MD, PhD, is the head of UVA Health’s Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Credit: Sanjay Suchak | UVA Communications Though COVID-19 so…
No Evidence COVID-19 Coronavirus Was Genetically Engineered in a Lab – Epidemic Has a Natural Origin
No Evidence COVID-19 Coronavirus Was Genetically Engineered in a Lab – Epidemic Has a Natural Origin
Electron microscopy photo of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Scripps Research’s analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the…
This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow)—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient, emerging from the surface of cells…
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to…