Following the coronavirus's spread through the population—and anticipating its next move—is an important part of the public health response to the new disease, especially since containment is our only defense so far.
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Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is an acute viral infection that usually affects infants and children of less than five years. In a study published in Scientific Reports in January 2020, an international research team ...
Apr 09, 2020
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DNA sequencing is becoming a more commonplace method for detecting diseases and improving precision medicine. Because DNA sequencing does not detect all possible disease-causing mutations, RNA sequencing is often used to ...
Apr 08, 2020
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Professor Peter Waterhouse, an Australian Laureate Fellow, has developed a roadmap for biologists and biotechnologists who are turning to the new technique of producing antibodies, vaccines and therapeutics, including those ...
Apr 07, 2020
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Researchers from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) have launched a new database to advance the international research efforts studying COVID-19.
Mar 27, 2020
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A U.S. scientist is helping public health authorities understand and track the coronavirus, turning up clues about how it arrived and spread through Washington state and beyond, including potentially seeding an outbreak on ...
Mar 11, 2020
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have discovered a gene associated with about half of glucocorticoid resistance in children with the most common pediatric cancer. Researchers have also identified a drug that ...
Mar 09, 2020
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Mutations discovered in the first Brazilian case of coronavirus are no cause for alarm, a leading virologist says, as the virus seems to be remaining stable enough for a single vaccine to work.
Mar 05, 2020
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The Roberts Individualized Medical Genetics Center (RIMGC) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched in 2014 as a first-of-its-kind system to help families navigate the complex process of genetic and genomic ...
Feb 26, 2020
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The current outbreak of a new coronavirus disease, named COVID-19, raises the question of where diseases like this come from and where the risks lie. By the middle of February almost 2000 people had died in this outbreak, ...
Feb 19, 2020
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