Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How are experts tracking variants of the coronavirus?
How are experts tracking variants of the coronavirus?
Feb 11, 2021
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News tagged with virus genomes
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Coronavirus introduced into Russia at least 67 times
A research team from HSE University and SkolTech, together with experts from the Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza in St. Petersburg and the RAS Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems (IITP) ...
Jan 28, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Superspreading events profoundly alter the course of an epidemic
A large team of researchers with members from a variety of institutions in and around Boston have found evidence showing that superspreading events may profoundly alter the course of an epidemic. In their paper published ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers use genomics to reconstitute yellow fever outbreak in Sao Paulo
Yellow fever virus is normally confined to the Amazon region, but the virus circulated in the Southeast of Brazil between 2016 and 2018, causing the worst epidemic and epizootic outbreaks there for decades. The Ministry of ...
Nov 05, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the new coronavirus penetrates, exploits and kills cells
"Know your enemy," Sun Tzu, the great sage of war, wrote some 2,500 years ago. Today, as COVID-19 spreads around the globe, the greatest army of medical scientists ever assembled is bent on learning all it can, as fast as ...
Sep 10, 2020
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Health informatics
Bioinformatics: At the forefront, behind the scenes
Bioinformatics is an inherently interdisciplinary effort, combining the molecular biology revolution heralded by pioneers like Watson and Crick with advances in computer science that have placed previously unimaginable abilities ...
Sep 04, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
Unique HIV reservoirs in elite controllers
Xu Yu, MD, Ragon group leader, recently published a study entitled "Distinct viral reservoirs in individuals with spontaneous control of HIV-1," in Nature. Yu's lab, in collaboration with Ragon group leaders Mathias Lichterfeld, ...
Aug 26, 2020
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A man was reinfected with coronavirus after recovery, so what does this mean for immunity?
A 33-year old man was found to have a second SARS-CoV-2 infection some four and a half months after he was diagnosed with his first, from which he recovered. The man, who showed no symptoms, was diagnosed when he returned ...
Aug 25, 2020
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Genetics
Epstein-Barr virus rewires host epigenomes to drive stomach cancer
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), one of the most common human viruses, is associated with about 8 to 10% of stomach—or gastric—cancers, the third leading cause of cancer death globally. Researchers from Chiba University ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Researchers propose studying COVID-19's envelope protein
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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