Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Video: How testing has kept up with new COVID-19 variants
While COVID-19 continues to evolve, there is some good news when it comes to detecting the virus.
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News tagged with virus mutations
HIV & AIDS
Study: First sustained remission of HIV infection following a bone marrow transplant in absence of protective mutation
A total of seven individuals worldwide (two patients in Berlin and patients in London, Düsseldorf, New York, City of Hope and Geneva) are considered likely to have been cured or to be in long-term remission of HIV infection ...
Sep 5, 2024
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Genetics
Scientists unlock the secret behind a decades-old dengue mystery
Like many good detectives, Duke-NUS Integrated Biology and Medicine Ph.D. Program candidate Allyson Choi was undaunted when she was handed a decades-old cold case: a 1970s outbreak of dengue in the South Pacific.
Sep 3, 2024
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Genetics
Synergistic mutations found in omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2
Certain changes in the genetic material of pathogens can alter their ability to infect human cells or protect them better from defense by the immune system. Researchers were able to observe this effect particularly impressively ...
Aug 23, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study examines surge in RSV cases after the COVID-19 pandemic
The surge in RSV cases following the COVID-19 pandemic may have been, in part, caused by increased testing and changes to the RSV genome, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Communications.
May 30, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using machine learning to track the evolution of COVID-19
Scientists have developed a machine-learning approach to track the evolution of SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and potentially other viruses, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National ...
Apr 4, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Using large-scale molecular simulations to improve the way we prepare for future COVID-19 variants
Scientists are making significant leaps towards understanding and predicting the future threats posed by the evolution of the COVID-19 virus, thanks to powerful simulation and machine learning techniques.
Nov 8, 2023
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Medical research
Researchers find evidence of mpox circulating in humans since 2016
A large international team of medical researchers and epidemiologists has found evidence that monkeypox (mpox) has been circulating in humans since 2016. In their study, reported in the journal Science, the group used Bayesian ...
Medications
Antiviral drug molnupiravir linked to SARS-CoV-2 mutations
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, the University of Liverpool, the University of Cape Town and UKHSA have uncovered a link between an antiviral drug for COVID-19 ...
Sep 25, 2023
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Genetics
Study weighs in on fears that COVID drug could spawn super virus
COVID-19 patients are often prescribed antiviral drugs that work by reducing the number of viral particles circulating in the body. One such drug, molnupiravir, tricks the virus into generating mutations, some of which are ...
Sep 13, 2023
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