Understanding any similarities between SARS and COVID-19 inflammation could help in a clinical setting. A protein in the viruses causing COVID-19 and SARS is almost identical. Researchers propose investigating whether FDA-approved ...
Jul 27, 2020
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In Kenya, camels are a very popular animal to keep as livestock. There's value in their meat and milkproducts and as a result, there are now over three million camels in the country.
May 27, 2020
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The first coronaviruses known to infect humans were discovered more than half a century ago – so why are there no vaccines against these viruses? Should we be optimistic that an effective vaccine will be developed now?
May 13, 2020
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A group of tiny RNA that should attack the virus causing COVID-19 when it tries to infect the body are diminished with age and chronic health problems, a decrease that likely helps explain why older individuals and those ...
May 13, 2020
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Some people question why the current coronavirus has brought the world to standstill while a previous deadly coronavirus, SARS, did not.
May 5, 2020
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Governments are starting to lift restrictions and some are considering "immunity passports," where all restrictions are lifted for those previously infected.
May 4, 2020
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In the United States, hepatocellular or liver cancer deaths have doubled since 1979. Hepatitis C virus is the leading cause of liver cancer. Around 1998, lifesaving drugs to treat hepatitis C—prohibitively expensive for ...
Apr 30, 2020
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A team of researchers at the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine has developed a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that has proven successful in promoting an immune response in early test models.
Apr 21, 2020
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What makes the COVID-19 pandemic so difficult to contain? Silent transmission by asymptomatic patients is partly responsible, but research emerging from Germany suggests the SARS-CoV-2 virus has developed a second impressive ...
Apr 20, 2020
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Two months after creating a structural 3-D roadmap of the novel coronavirus and sharing it with the scientific community worldwide, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) bioinformatics researcher Dmitry Korkin has published ...
Apr 15, 2020
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