When Saathvik Kannan's father, a faculty member at the University of Missouri, saw his friend, Kamlendra Singh, a research professor at MU, on television being interviewed for his research identifying possible treatments ...
Sep 28, 2020
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Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.
Sep 25, 2020
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In early January, the first genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—was released under the moniker "Wuhan-1." This string of 30,000 letters (the A, T, C and Gs of the genetic code) marked day one ...
Sep 24, 2020
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Melbourne researchers have developed a tool to monitor mutations that make it difficult to develop coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines and drugs.
Sep 10, 2020
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By the first week of August 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic had caused about 654,000 deaths worldwide. In Nigeria, as of July 28, there were 38,945 confirmed cases recorded with 813 deaths.
Sep 7, 2020
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Since COVID-19 began its menacing march across Wuhan, China, in December 2019, and then across the world, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has taken a "whatever works" strategy to ensure its replication and spread. But in anew study ...
Aug 26, 2020
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As the novel coronavirus spreads, it's picking up new mutations—for better and for worse.
Aug 13, 2020
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A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has uncovered a Zika virus mutation that may be responsible for the explosive viral transmission in 2015/2016 and for the cause of microcephaly ...
Aug 3, 2020
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Some common strains of influenza have the potential to mutate to evade broad-acting antibodies that could be elicited by a universal flu vaccine, according to a study led by scientists at Scripps Research.
Jun 23, 2020
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An important milestone in the fight against COVID-19 came in early January 2020, when the entire viral genome of the novel coronavirus that causes the diseasewas sequenced for the first time. Since then, the full coronavirus ...
Jun 23, 2020
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