Vitamin D Linked to Low Coronavirus Death Rate
New COVID-19 research finds relationship in data from 20 European countries. A new study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D…
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COVID-19 Treatment May Lie in Pangolin Genetics – May Possess Evolutionary Advantage Against Coronavirus
The exotic animal’s genome could point to possible treatment options for COVID-19 in humans. Similar to how a smoke detector sounds off an alarm, certain…
Russia Creates Custom “Humanized” Mice to Test COVID-19 Drugs and Vaccines
Following the recent Coronavirus outbreak, almost three million people have been infected worldwide, whereas the death toll has already passed the 200,000 mark, according to…
Bat ‘Super Immunity’ May Explain How Bats Carry Coronaviruses Without Getting Sick
Bat-virus adaptation may explain species spillover, researchers say. A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory…
Infection Researchers Identify How Coronaviruses From Animals Need to Change to Spread to Humans
Infection researchers from the German Primate Center identify starting points for vaccine development and therapy. The SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects lung cells and is…
Progress on AAVCOVID, A Gene-Based Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine
AAVCOVID technology is unique in the vaccine field in its ability to scale and adapt rapidly. Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH),…
How Effective Are Cloth Masks Against Coronavirus? [Video]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that the general public wear cloth face masks to help decrease everyone’s chances of getting COVID-19. So…
Deadly Virus Turns Honey Bees Into Trojan Horses, Rapidly Spreading the Infection to Healthy Hives
Honey bees that guard hive entrances are twice as likely to allow in trespassers from other hives if the intruders are infected with the Israeli…
Hunt for an Effective Treatment for COVID-19 Leads to Llamas & Their Special Antibodies
The hunt for an effective treatment for COVID-19 has led one team of researchers to find an improbable ally for their work: a llama named…
New Model to Track COVID-19’s Spread – Very Accurately Forecasts the Timing, Intensity and Geographic Distribution of Outbreak
Yale University researchers and colleagues in Hong Kong and China have developed an approach for rapidly tracking population flows that could help policymakers worldwide more…
New Clues on How to Treat COVID-19 From T Cell Counts and Cytokine Storms
Inflammatory immune response can cause T cells to become depleted, affecting patient outcomes in coronavirus cases and leaving them prone to secondary infection. Cytokine storms…
Key Insights on How Coronavirus Spreads From Chinese Megacity of Shenzhen
Analysis shows how extensive testing and contact tracing stopped outbreak in South Chinese megacity. The extensive use of epidemiological surveillance, isolation of infected patients, and…
Study Unveils COVID-19 Transmission Patterns and Safety-Conscious Reopening Plans
With the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in lockdowns in different parts of the world, from the US to many European nations, there have been intense debates…
Making Sense of the Viral Multiverse: Situating Coronaviruses Within Mind-Bendingly Vast Virosphere
In November of 2019—likely, even earlier—a tiny entity measuring just a few hundred billionths of a meter in diameter began to tear apart human society…
Syphilis Alters Its Genetics to Evade the Immune System
By shuffling DNA in and out of one gene, syphilis stays a step ahead of the immune system to resist eradication. The bacterium that causes…
Breast Milk Molecule Can Raise the Risk of HIV Transmission
Scientists have discovered that a sugar that occurs naturally in breast milk can double the likelihood of a HIV-negative baby acquiring the virus from an…
