Researchers engineer RNA-targeting compounds that disable the pandemic coronavirus’ replication engine. Scripps Research chemist Matthew Disney, PhD, and colleagues have created drug-like compounds that, in…
As the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have drawn attention as potential therapies for COVID-19 and are being widely used off-label, it’s now more important…
Seasonal colds are by all accounts no fun, but new research suggests the colds you’ve had in the past may provide some protection from COVID-19….
Researchers from UCLA and China have found that catalase, a naturally occurring enzyme, holds potential as a low-cost therapeutic drug to treat COVID-19 symptoms and…
Results provide insight for public health policymakers fighting COVID-19. Achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 is an impractical public health strategy, according to a new model…
Pollution continues to loom as major worldwide threat, but problem areas have changed. he COVID-19 pandemic underscores more than any time in recent history how…
COVID-19 may not influence parents’ beliefs about the flu vaccine, with just 1/3 believing it’s more important for children to get vaccinated this year. The…
This year marks two decades since the first ESA doctor set foot in Antarctica, running research at one of the most extreme places on Earth…
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients who were vitamin D sufficient, with a blood level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at least 30 ng/mL (a measure of vitamin D…
A cocktail of powerful antibodies identified in recovered patients locks the coronavirus infection machinery, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 attachment to host cells, and protects animals challenged with…
The IRTA-CReSA coronavirus research team, alongside researchers from IrsiCaixa, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and veterinarians from a veterinary hospital near Barcelona publish in Proceedings…
A blood test on hospital admission showing the presence or absence of SARS-CoV-2 can identify patients at a high risk of severe COVID-19. Admitted patients…
Short-term hydroxychloroquine treatment is not associated with lethal heart rhythms in patients with COVID-19 who are risk assessed prior to receiving the drug. That’s the…
Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have identified highly effective antibodies against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and are…
Partnership to test SARS-CoV2 DNA vaccine in healthy Australians. The University of Sydney is testing a novel DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine with the goal of being…
Is the world prepared for a wave of neurological consequences that may be on its way as a result of COVID-19? This question is at…
Could over-the-counter “smart drugs” pose health risks? Supplements that claim to improve mental focus and memory may contain unapproved pharmaceutical drugs and in potentially dangerous…
Randomized, controlled trial shows weighted blankets can decrease insomnia severity — are safe and effective. Weighted blankets are a safe and effective intervention in the…