by American Heart Association Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain People who reported smoking or vaping prior to their hospitalization for COVID-19 were more likely than their counterparts who did not smoke or vape to experience severe complications, including death, from the SARS-CoV-2 infection. The findings are from a new study based on data from the American Heart...
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology Your body remembers common cold coronaviruses from childhood. Credit: Published in Cell Host & Microbe, July 2022 For a glimpse into the future of SARS-CoV-2 immunity, scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) are investigating how the immune system builds its defenses against common cold coronaviruses (CCCs). According...
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Skin swabs are “surprisingly effective” at identifying Covid-19 infection, according to new research from the University of Surrey, offering a route to a non-invasive future for Covid-19 testing. Surrey’s researchers used non-invasive swabs to collect sebum – an oily waxy substance produced by the body’s sebaceous glands – from 83 hospitalised patients, some of whom...
by University of Missouri Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As new omicron subvariants of COVID-19 continue to sweep across the United States, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified specific mutations within the virus’ spike protein that help omicron subvariants evade existing antibodies humans have from either vaccines or previous COVID-19 infections. These mutations help...
by Intermountain Healthcare Intermittent fasting has previously shown to have a of host of health benefits, including lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease. Now, researchers from Intermountain Healthcare have found that people who regularly fast are less like to experience severe complications from COVID-19. Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Intermittent fasting has previously shown to...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D. Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects the signatures of eight hotspots on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now, after testing CoVarScan on more than 4,000 patient samples collected at UT Southwestern, the team reports in Clinical...
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER IMAGE: WESLEY SELF, MD, MPH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, VICE PRESIDENT FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORKS AND STRATEGY AT VUMC AND LEAD AUTHOR OF THE STUDY. CREDIT: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER Convalescent plasma, widely given to severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19 during the pandemic, does not improve their ability to...
by University of Tokyo Researchers report a new, minimally invasive, antibody-based detection method for SARS-CoV-2 that could lead to the blood sample-free detection of many diseases. Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Despite significant and stunning advances in vaccine technology, the COVID-19 global pandemic is not over. A key challenge in limiting the...
by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Illustration of a SARS-CoV-2 viral particle entering a cell. The particle pierces through a cell’s membrane, made of two layers of lipids. A PNNL-OHSU team has shown how lipids are key to the ability of the virus to replicate. Credit: Michael Perkins, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory The virus that causes COVID-19...
Rutgers scientists have developed a lab test that can quickly and easily identify which variant of the virus causing COVID-19 has infected a person, an advance expected to greatly assist health officials tracking the disease and physicians treating infected patients. Details of the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test have been published in The Journal of Molecular...
