University of Utah Health scientists are leading an effort to determine if salivary glands infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 could diminish a person's long-term immunity to the disease after being immunized or ...
Oct 27, 2021
0
0
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) report in the Journal of Viral Hepatitis that the activity levels of the proteins involved in liver scarring, or cirrhosis, begin to decrease immediately after ...
Oct 26, 2021
0
5
Respiratory syncytial virus, more commonly known as RSV, is a highly contagious respiratory virus that can be very serious and even fatal for young children and the elderly. In summer of 2021, health care providers saw an ...
Oct 21, 2021
0
28
The coronavirus pandemic has made vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna and the mRNA technology that they use into household names.
Oct 15, 2021
0
6
To study a virus as infectious as SARS-CoV-2, researchers need to follow laborious protocols and have access to high-biosafety laboratories. Seeking to make such investigations safer, faster, and accessible to more teams ...
Oct 14, 2021
0
104
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a chemical compound that interferes with a key feature of many viruses that allows the viruses to invade human cells. The compound, called ...
Oct 12, 2021
23
407
As Australia strives to reach its national COVID vaccination targets, there's unprecedented focus on the biological effects of vaccines.
Oct 8, 2021
0
10
When Kamlendra Singh flew back to Missouri from India in April, he developed a cough and fever on the plane, despite being vaccinated for COVID-19 and testing negative for the virus right before departure.
Sep 28, 2021
0
18
People infected with the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 early in the pandemic produced a consistent antibody response, making two main groups of antibodies to bind to the spike protein on the virus's outer ...
Sep 20, 2021
1
278
A group of researchers at Université de Montréal has simulated the effects of more than 17,000 possible mutations of the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
Sep 17, 2021
0
7
