Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How effective are masks during a COVID wave?
Health departments are predicting another COVID surge related, in part, to more easily transmitted new variants and waning immunity.
Jul 20, 2022
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Medical research
Scientists uncover structural basis for SARS-CoV-2 inhibition by Remdesivir
A team of Chinese scientists have reported the high-resolution cryo-EM structure of Remdesivir-bound RNA replicase complex from SARS-CoV-2, the infective virus of COVID-19.
May 1, 2020
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Genetics
A global effort to understand why some people are resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infections
An international team of medical scientists has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Immunology, outlining ongoing research into why some people are resistant to SARS-CoV-2 infections. In their paper, they ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How SARS-CoV-2 gets into respiratory tissue—and how it may exploit one of our defenses
What makes SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, such a threat? A new study, led by Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Ph.D. at Boston Children's Hospital and Alex K. Shalek, Ph.D. at MIT, pinpoints the likely cell types the virus infects. ...
Apr 22, 2020
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Medical research
Tiny antibody component highly effective against SARS-COV-2 in animal studies
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have isolated the smallest biological molecule to date that completely and specifically neutralizes the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which is the cause of COVID-19. This antibody ...
Sep 14, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19
Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it?
Aug 20, 2020
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Immunology
Evolution of the human immune system in the post-omicron era
It has been four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 has yet to be eradicated and new variants are continuously emerging. Despite the extensive immunization programs, breakthrough infections (infection ...
Jan 19, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists find evidence that novel coronavirus infects the mouth's cells
An international team of scientists has found evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, infects cells in the mouth. While it's well known that the upper airways and lungs are primary sites of SARS-CoV-2 infection, ...
Mar 25, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Impacts of COVID on the immune system
So you've had COVID and have now recovered. You don't have ongoing symptoms and luckily, you don't seem to have developed long COVID.
Sep 19, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Preliminary research suggests SARS-CoV-2 virus less infectious within five minutes of exposure to air
In a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed or accepted for publication, researchers at Bristol University in the U.K. have found evidence that suggests the SARS-CoV-2 virus becomes less infectious within five minutes ...
