Using AI to Track the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends. Dealing with a global pandemic has taken…
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends. Dealing with a global pandemic has taken…
Blood clots continue to wreak havoc for patients with severe COVID-19 infection, and a new study explains what may spark them in up to half…
Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance the performance of radiologists in reading breast cancer screening mammograms, according to a study published in Radiology: Artificial Intelligence. Breast cancer…
The ability of SARS-CoV-2 to infect cells depends on interactions between the viral spike protein and the human cell surface protein ACE2. To enable the…
Investigations of deceased COVID-19 patients have shed light on possible lung damage caused by the virus. The study, published today (November 3, 2020) in The…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
University of Chicago researchers add district map to COVID Atlas visualization tool. Citizens and voters can now track their congressional districts alongside the coronavirus pandemic,…
Brigham investigators have identified patients who cleared the disease faster and had a persistent antibody response, with important implications for immunity. One of the pressing…
Letting an algorithm decide which maintenance holes to test for evidence of coronavirus could improve pandemic containment efforts. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that spreads…
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists have discovered the fastest way to identify potent, neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes…
Sleep deprivation increases rewarding properties of cocaine through motivation peptide. Sleep deprivation may pave the way to cocaine addiction. Too little sleep can increase the…
Preclinical data published in Cell show the nanoparticle vaccine spurs extremely high levels of protective antibodies in animal models. An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for…
A study involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which…
When Dr. Stephen Smith of Seattle Children’s Research Institute came down with muscle aches, gastrointestinal distress, and a sudden loss of smell in late February,…
How does COVID-19 affect sperm and thus the next generation’s immune system? Researchers from the University of Bergen are collecting sperm to find the answer….
New research[1] launched at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV Virtual, has found that despite the COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) lockdown restrictions, diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs),…
Research presented today (October 31, 2020) at EADV’s 29th Congress, EADV Virtual, shows hope that a form of vitamin B3 could protect skin cells from…
New research shows that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy could be successfully mitigated both by washing hands and washing candy using a simple at-home…