By Apoorva Mandavilli Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness. A patient in the emergency room of a hospital in Los Angeles awaited the results of a coronavirus test this month. Credit…Jae C. Hong/Associated Press As Covid-19 patients flood into hospitals nationwide, doctors are facing an impossible question. Which patients in...
By RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAIL ONLINE A new antibody treatment with the potential to give people instant immunity after being exposed to Covid-19 and prevent illness is being trialled by scientists in the UK. The drug would offer immediate and long-term protection to patients when it would be too late to offer a vaccine, potentially saving thousands...
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have proven that the coronavirus can be killed efficiently, quickly, and cheaply using ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (UV-LEDs). They believe that the UV-LED technology will soon be available for private and commercial use. This is the first study conducted on the disinfection efficiency...
By Rich Haridy, October 27, 2020 Researchers tested hundreds of thousands of people for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies across a three-month period UK researchers are suggesting levels of antibodies produced by the immune system in response to SARS-CoV-2 may significantly drop in the months following an initial infection. Testing hundreds of thousands of subjects over three months, a study...
OCTOBER 18, 2020 SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). The coronavirus remains active on human skin for nine hours, Japanese researchers have found, in a discovery they said showed the need for frequent hand washing to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The pathogen that causes the flu survives on human skin for about 1.8 hours by comparison, said...
BY DAN ROBITZSKI A postmortem analysis of the bodies of people who died from COVID-19 revealed something alarming: About half showed signs of the coronavirus in their brains. The actual impacts of the neural infections seem mild at worst, according to research published Monday in The Lancet Neurology. But the revelation that the coronavirus can reach patients’ central nervous...
That reaction can be especially lethal for older people, who make up 8 out of every 10 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. As people get older, their risk of having an underlying health condition increases, and at the same time, their immune system is aging. Researchers think both of those factors contribute to...
A biotech company developed a spray that has been able to treat coronavirus infections and even prevent COVID-19 in labs. Ena Respiratory developed a synthetic molecule called INNA-051 that can boost the immune response to clear the viral load, prevent COVID-19 transmission, and possibly prevent infection. The drug might complement coronavirus vaccines in the future,...
A breakthrough coronavirus cure might soon be available, as researchers are studying a drug that could eliminate the virus, calm the immune response, and repair damaged tissue. The drug is described in different ways: Medicinal signaling cells (MSCs), mesenchymal lineage adult stem cells, or adipose-tissue derived mesenchymal stromal cells (AT-MSC). MSCs therapy proved to be very effective...
A person who has recovered from COVID-19 takes part in a rehabilitation programme in Genoa, Italy. The lung scans were the first sign of trouble. In the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, clinical radiologist Ali Gholamrezanezhad began to notice that some people who had cleared their COVID-19 infection still had distinct signs of damage....
