SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the COVID-19 infection, can be transmitted from mother to baby before, during and after childbirth—but such occurrences are rare, a new study reveals.
Mar 16, 2022
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When Inger Heimdal started studying the coronavirus in children in 2014, not many people thought the topic sounded particularly exciting.
Mar 16, 2022
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As the effort to combat the SARS-CoV-2 virus began, among the most pressing questions were how to gauge its infectivity and get a better picture of those dynamics from the inside out. Answering them initially would bring ...
Mar 15, 2022
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While scientists have made unprecedented progress in preventing COVID-19 in the past two years, they have also moved closer to finding a vaccine to protect against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which has been infecting ...
Mar 11, 2022
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"COVID has created an unprecedented public health crisis, with severe effects on the global economy and infrastructure; however, we can use the power of science to stop this pandemic," says Columbia team leader Jingyue Ju, ...
Mar 7, 2022
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At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, we were hopeful that pre-existing immunity to the common cold could protect you from COVID, but new evidence suggests that sometimes the opposite can happen. A new University of Rochester ...
Mar 7, 2022
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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified structural changes in COVID-19 variants which provide clues to how the virus evolved to have greater levels of infectivity.
Mar 4, 2022
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Multiple tissues of the male genital tract can be infected with SARS-CoV-2, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study in large animal models. The study, in SARS-CoV-2 infected-rhesus macaques, revealed the prostate, vasculature ...
Mar 2, 2022
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The blood of people infected by SARS-CoV-2 shows telltale signals of immunity against new variants of the novel coronavirus as long as 11 months following infection, according to a new laboratory study from Oregon Health ...
Feb 28, 2022
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Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a promising drug candidate for the treatment of multi-inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), they report in Clinical ...
Feb 24, 2022
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