Study: This protein may be the 'glue' that helps COVID virus stick
When SARS-CoV-2 enters the human body, the virus' spike protein binds to a cell, allowing the virus to infiltrate and begin replicating.
Jan 24, 2024
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When SARS-CoV-2 enters the human body, the virus' spike protein binds to a cell, allowing the virus to infiltrate and begin replicating.
Jan 24, 2024
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Underlying evolutionary dynamics could play a key role in the replication and progress of the chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne viral disease. New research from Ph.D. student Wern Hann Ng, Dr. Xiang Liu and Professor Suresh ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Scientists studying how poxviruses evade natural defenses in human cells have identified a new approach to treatment that may be more durable than current treatments.
Aug 9, 2023
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Herpes viruses are treacherous: once you are infected, you can never get rid of the virus. This is because herpes viruses lie dormant in certain host cells in the body for a lifetime. Almost every adult unknowingly carries ...
Aug 7, 2023
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A study led by Mount Sinai researchers Dr. Bin Zhang, the Willard T.C. Johnson Research Professor of Neurogenetics, and Dr. Christian Forst, an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, has identified ...
Apr 11, 2023
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In January 2022, around the time that the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 started spreading rapidly, a team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) led by Shashank Tripathi, Assistant Professor at the Department ...
Mar 20, 2023
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Structural details of an attractive drug target in coronaviruses that could be used against SARS-CoV-2 and in future pandemics have been published today in eLife.
Nov 22, 2022
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Millions have died due to COVID-19 infection, and millions more continue experiencing the chronic condition, Long COVID, which makes discovering practical, accessible, and powerful SARS-CoV-2 preventatives and COVID-19 treatments ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Most COVID-19 therapeutics target the SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Because the viral proteins acquire genetic sequence mutations, the emergence of new variants has a risk to make the drugs ineffective.
Oct 31, 2022
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It's hard to imagine a time when "coronavirus" wasn't a household word. But for a long time, this family of viruses had merited very little attention. Believed to be ubiquitous among animals and avian species, the first coronavirus ...
Oct 4, 2022
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