by Kat J. McAlpine, Boston University Human lung cells (blue) infected with SARS-CoV-2 (red). Courtesy of Hekman, et al. Credit: Hekman, et al. What if scientists knew exactly what impact the SARS-CoV-2 virus had inside our lung cells, within the first few hours of being infected? Could they use that information to find drugs that would...
By ANDREW JOSEPH @DrewQJoseph JANUARY 28, 2021 Reprints A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (yellow).NIAID Health authorities have identified the first U.S. cases of Covid-19 caused by a fast-spreading form of the coronavirus initially seen in South Africa, in two people in South Carolina. Neither person has...
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON HEALTH SCIENCES/UW MEDICINE IMAGE: AN ILLUSTRATION OF A NEW BIOSENSOR BINDING TO A TARGETED MOLECULE AND EMITTING LIGHT. THE CREATION OF THE BIOSENSOR WAS LED BY THE UW MEDICINE INSTITUTE FOR PROTEIN DESIGN. CREDIT: IAN HAYDON/UW MEDICINE INSTITUTE FOR PROTEIN DESIGN Scientists have created a new way to detect the proteins that...
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL IMAGE: MOLECULAR MODELLING OF INTERACTIONS OF HEPARIN SACCHARIDES (COLOURED STICK AND BALLS) WITH THE RECEPTOR BINDING DOMAIN OF THE SPIKE PROTEIN OF SARS-COV2 VIRUS (YELLOW/GREEN RIBBON), WHICH INTERFERE WITH ITS BINDING TO THE ACE2 RECEPTOR OF HUMAN CELLS. CREDIT: MYCROFT-WEST ET AL. An international team of researchers led by the Universities of Liverpool and...
FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO IMAGE: THE HORMONE ACTS AS A BARRIER AGAINST SARS-COV-2, BLOCKING THE EXPRESSION OF GENES THAT ENCODE PROTEINS IN CELLS SERVING AS VIRAL ENTRY POINTS, ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY RESEARCHERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO CREDIT: NIAD/NIH By Elton Alisson | Agência FAPESP- Melatonin synthesized...
January 22nd 2021, Posted by PATTI VERBANAS-RUTGERS “When the host range for the virus is expanded, the numbers and the opportunity for mutations increase,” says David Cennimo. (Credit: Getty Images) Experts continue to identify new coronavirus strains—some more contagious than the prevalent strain—around the globe. David Cennimo, a pediatric infectious disease expert and assistant professor...
BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / A DAY AGO According to UK researchers, the fast spreading B117 variant of the coronavirus may be responsible for increasing the death rate by 30 to 40 percent, The Guardian reports. In a publicly filed document, the UK’s New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) announced that “preliminary analyses” showed “that there may...
by Max Planck Society The Covid-19 drug remdesivir (purple) is incorporated into the new RNA chain during the copying process and suppresses the duplication of the coronavirus genome. Credit: Hauke Hillen, Goran Kokic, and Patrick Cramer / Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Remdesivir is the first drug against COVID-19 to be conditionally approved in Europe...
By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE Losing the senses smell and taste are common symptoms of Covid-19 and new data shows it affects 86 per cent of individuals with mild cases. However only 4.5 per cent of people with moderate cases and 6.9 per cent in severe-to-critical cases say they have these symptoms. The study from Paris Saclay University...
By Apoorva Mandavill Contagiousness is the hallmark of the mutated virus surfacing in the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries. The first infection with the new variant in the United States was traced to a National Guardsman who was working at the Good Samaritan Society, an assisted living center in Simla, Colo. Credit…Matthew Staver...
