by Catherine Caruso, Harvard Medical School An image from a Minerva story on lung cancer. Credit: Minerva For many of us, Google Maps has become an indispensable daily tool: We pop open a web browser and instantly access a powerful map where we can get directions, zoom in and pan, overlay features like traffic and...
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Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
by Thandi Fletcher, University of British Columbia An international team led by University of British Columbia researcher Dr. Josef Penninger has found a trial drug that effectively blocks the cellular door SARS-CoV-2 uses to infect its hosts. The findings, published today in Cell, hold promise as a treatment capable of stopping early infection of the...