By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 22:40 EDT, 11 April 2021 | UPDATED: 02:15 EDT, 12 April 2021 Pentagon scientists working inside a secretive unit set up at the height of the Cold War have created a microchip to be inserted under the skin, which will detect COVID-19 infection, and a revolutionary filter that can remove the virus from the blood when...
by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., a professor at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, shows the experimental assays that test for compounds that may treat COVID-19. Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute A Nature study authored by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute and the University of Hong Kong shows...
COVID-19 has been with us for more than a year already. But do you remember how little we knew about it just one year ago? We didn’t know what this viral disease can do to children. It turned out, they are more immune to COVID-19 than adults are. But why? Scientists at the University of...
by University of Liverpool Fig. 1 Plasma mediators at the time of study enrollment demonstrated a broad exaggerated immune response in patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Clustered heatmap of 33 immune mediators in plasma samples collected from patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at the time of study enrolment. Missing mediator data were imputed and values were scaled within...
by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Credit: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute QIMR Berghofer researchers have discovered some of the ways COVID-19 damages the heart, and identified a class of drugs that could potentially protect or reverse this cardiac injury. In severe cases of COVID-19, the immune system overreacts to the infection, releasing inflammatory molecules called cytokines into the bloodstream. This...
DECEMBER 30TH, 2020 MEDGADGET EDITORS EXCLUSIVE As we say goodbye to 2020, the year that will live in infamy, it is important to recognize the many positive developments that occurred in the year of the pandemic. COVID-19 may have shut down industries, but it challenged those working in medicine to invent, adapt, and overcome faster than ever...
RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA IMAGE: 56-year-old man presenting with severe COVID-19. Diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection was based on a positive quantitative real-time RT-PCR test for SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid performed on nasopharyngeal and lower respiratory tract swabs. The patient had been hospitalized in intensive care unit for 20 days when an MRI was performed due...
People with cystic fibrosis, or CF, don’t appear to be especially susceptible to COVID-19, and when they do get infected, they don’t seem to get sicker, based on clinical data so far. But Ruobing (Ruby) Wang, an assistant professor of paediatrics at Harvard Medical School who cares for patients with CF at Boston Children’s Hospital, thinks...
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY IMAGE: MRI IMAGE OF A PATIENT’S SHOULDER. THE RED ARROW POINTS TO INFLAMMATION IN THE JOINT. THE COVID VIRUS TRIGGERED RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS IN THIS PATIENT WITH PROLONGED SHOULDER PAIN AFTER OTHER COVID SYMPTOMS RESOLVED. CREDIT: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHICAGO — Muscle soreness and achy joints are common symptoms among COVID-19 patients. But for some...
by Massachusetts General Hospital A colorized scanning electron micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Credit: NIAID While PCR testing has been used widely for COVID-19 diagnosis, it only provides information on who is currently infected. Antibody testing can tell who has been previously exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, a metric that is essential for...
