New ‘CALM’ model on passenger movement developed using Frontera supercomputer Fair or not, airplanes have a reputation for germs. However, there are ways to minimize the risks. Historic research based on group movements of humans and animals suggest three simple rules: move away from those that are too close. move toward those that are far...
By: University of Missouri There are things you can do to make sure the food you’re eating during the COVID-19 pandemic is safe and to limit waste, experts say. With most of the US under stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic, people are stocking up on household essentials and groceries. Because of this, it’s vitally...
The head of the World Health Organization has warned that “the worst is yet ahead of us” in the coronavirus outbreak, raising new alarm bells about the pandemic just as many countries are beginning to ease restrictive measures. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus didn’t specify exactly why he believes that the outbreak that has infected...
Credit: Christoph Burgstedt / Science Photo Library / Getty Images. How does memory work? The further we seem to dive in, the more questions we stumble upon about how the function of memory first evolved. Scientists made a key breakthrough with the identification of the Arc protein in 1995, observing how its role in the...
By IAN RANDALL FOR MAILONLINE and PRESS ASSOCIATION COVID-19 needs two particular proteins to gain access inside target cells Researchers used a database of cell types to find which have both proteins They found that coronavirus exploits a protein that usually helps fight viruses The findings may help experts as they hunt for treatments against...
by Binghamton University As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its second month across the U.S., supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as N95 masks and face shields continue to run low at many hospitals. Researchers at Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science have addressed this problem by designing sterilization...
Scientists around the world are scrambling to adapt their research to find solutions to the many problems raised by the Covid-19 pandemic sweeping the world, not the least being a face mask shortage. “We have developed and tested a highly breathable nanocellulose material that can remove particles smaller than 100 nanometres, the size of viruses,”...
by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the University of Hong Kong, Scripps Research, UC San Diego School of Medicine, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and UCLA have identified 30 existing drugs that stop the replication of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Almost...
BY: CAROL YAN, MD, Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. In a study published April 12, 2020 in the journal International Forum of & Rhinology, researchers at UC San Diego Health report the first empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the...
By: Kim Barker is an enterprise reporter BOSTON — On the first Monday in March, Michel Vounatsos, chief executive of the drug company Biogen, appeared in good spirits. The company’s new Alzheimer’s drug was showing promise after years of setbacks. Revenues had never been higher. Onstage at an elite health care conference in Boston, Mr....
