A diabetes drug called Metformin was found to reduce the fatality rate of women with the coronavirus by as much as 24%. The drug did not appear to have an impact on men with the coronavirus. The coronavirus pandemic may persist for as long as two years without an effective vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci recently...
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A potentially crucial drug for fighting COVID-19 awaits new outbreaks to put it to the test
In April, Armand Balboni received an anxious call from Tokyo. On the line was a contact from Fujifilm Toyama, the Japanese multinational, who told him that problems were cropping up with a plan to ship 30,000 tablets of the drug known as favipiravir to Canada for a clinical trial. “It was their head of business...
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Increase in delirium, rare brain inflammation and stroke linked to COVID-19
by University College London This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 — also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19 — isolated from a patient in the US. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses...
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US Coronavirus Status is “Really Not Good” As Country Remains On “Knee-Deep” in First Wave of Cases, Fauci Warns
The United States is still “knee-deep” in its first wave of COVID-19 infections and must act quickly to tackle the recent surge, a health expert warned. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on efforts to get back to...
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How a mutation on the novel coronavirus has come to dominate the globe
by La Jolla Institute for Immunology Flashback to mid-March: the novel coronavirus had reached San Diego, California. Few people could get tested, and even less was known about how the virus mutated as it spread from person to person. Scientists now know that two variants of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) were circulating at that time....
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40% of virus carriers in Italian town show no symptoms: study
More than 40 percent of people diagnosed with COVID-19 in one Italian town showed no signs of being ill, according to research published Tuesday indicating that asymptomatic carriers may be significant spreaders of the virus. The authors said their research showed how important mass testing and isolating carriers was in containing clusters of the virus....
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We Still Don’t Fully Understand The Label ‘Asymptomatic’
June 23, 2020, 10:31 AM EST Pien Huang A CT scan of the chest of a 66-year-old male reveals patchy rounded hazy spots throughout the lungs. He had tested positive for the coronavirus and experienced shortness of breath. Even if someone is infected by the novel coronavirus and remains asymptomatic — free of coughing, fever,...
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New swine flu strain found in China poses threat of pandemic
by Bob Yirka, Science X Network, Medical Xpress A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China and one in the U.S. has found evidence of a new strain of swine flu that poses a possible threat to humans. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the...
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CRISPR Gene Editing in Human Embryos Wreaks Chromosome Mayhem
By Heidi Ledford, Nature magazine on June 25, 2020 A suite of experiments that use the gene-editing tool CRISPR–Cas9 to modify human embryos have revealed how the process can make large, unwanted changes to the genome at or near the target site. The studies were published this month on the preprint server bioRxiv, and have...
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Inside the body, the coronavirus is even more sinister than scientists had realized
Melissa Healy, June 26, 2020, 8:00 AM MST The new coronavirus’ reputation for messing with scientists’ assumptions has taken a truly creepy turn. Researchers exploring the interaction between the coronavirus and its hosts have discovered that when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation. Obeying instructions from the virus,...