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Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are trying t...
Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants  Oct 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants: American researchers from the University of New Mexico and the University of Texas at San Antonio in a new study have demonstrated an alternative approach to long-lasting disinfection agains the SARS-CoV-2  by using cationic phenylene ethynylene polymers and oligomers (i.e., conjugated electrolytes) and visible light or near-UV light irradiation.   With both the...
Source: Research News  Oct 08, 2020  4 years ago
Research News: Scientist from the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford have made a startling discovery as to yet another one of the many modes that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to evade human host immune responses once it is inside the host cells and replicating. The study team discovered that that the nucleocapsid protein of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus unde...
Source: COVID Research News  Oct 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID Research News: Swedish researchers from Umea University in a new detailed study have now established what the active agent in the jelly like substance often found in the lungs of COVID-19 patients is.   It was found that in most patients who had died with severe COVID-19 and respiratory failure, a jelly was formed in the lungs. The formation of the jelly in the lungs of COVID-19 patie...
Source: COVID-19 World  Oct 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 World: Peru made the worse decision when it decided it decided to purchase 1.6 million antibody tests from China to help rein in the COVID-19 growing threat in March.   Its President, Martin Vizcarra made a huge press event of the decision then as when Peru’s health officials saw that despite PCR molecular tests for COVID-19 being the best option, they did not have the labs, ...
Source: Virus News  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
Virus News: Japanese researchers from the Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine in a new study have demonstrated that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can survive and linger on human skin much longer than flu viruses can.   The study showed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, remained viable and infectious on samples of human skin for about 9 hour...
Source: Air Purifiers - COVID-19  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
Air Purifiers - COVID-19: A new study by German researchers from the Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main-Germany has demonstrated that air-purifiers in enclosed indoor places can help reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The research findings are published on a preprint server and have yet to be peer-reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11...
Source: News-COVID-19  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
News-COVID-19: Italian researchers from the University Hospital In Torino report of the first European documented case of viral induced arthritis in a 58 year patient who was infected with the SARS-CoV0-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.   Arthralgia is a symptom in which there are joint pains and such a viral induced arthritis if common in most viral infections.   The cas...
Source: COVID-19  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19: German researchers from the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf and University of Freiburg in a new detailed autopsy study involving 43 deceased COVID-19 patients have discovered shocking findings as to how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ‘literally attacks’ the human host brains.   In the early stages of the pandemic, numerous researchers made claims that the SARS...
Source: ACE2  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
ACE2: Canadian researchers from the Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences, and McMaster University-Ontario, along with support from experts from Bayer Pharmaceuticals-Germany in a news study have discovered that increased plasma ACE2 (Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2) levels in the blood could indicate a higher risk of major cardiovascular events.   In brief, the stu...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), The University of Liverpool and the University of Southampton in a new international study have discovered that the CD4+ cells are affected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   The study is the first to give a detailed perspective of how the body's CD4+ T cells respond to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Among the research fin...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Oct 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an alert to all doctors and healthcare professional warning that the mysterious post-COVID syndrome typically found in children called “multisystem inflammatory syndrome” or MIS-C is now seen manifesting in adults as well.   The condition in adults is now officially termed as “multisystem...
Source: COVID-19 Severity  Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Severity: While various researchers around the world are figuring out the various risk factors for COVID-19 severity and mortality, a new study by an Italian Professor, Dr Pasquale Pagliaro from the Department Of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Torino suggests that macrophage class activation is one of the factors that determine the clinical phenotype of a more lethal seve...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments   Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: Australian researchers from The University of Newcastle, Hunter Medical Research Institute-New South Wales, University of Technology Sydney and Chinese scientists from Jilin University-Changchun have in a new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein subunit 1 can induce a pro-inflammatory signaling pathway (leading to cytokines deployment and epithelial...
Source: COVID-19 Breakthrough  Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Breakthrough: Canadian researchers have made a major breakthrough during a study on UPR or unfolded protein response during coronaviruses viral replication leading them to a discovery of thiopurines to stop the viral replication of human coronaviruses including SARS-CoV-2. This breakthrough with further research could lead to a new and effective broad-spectrum therapeutic antiviral that c...
Source: COVID-19 Insights  Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Insights: President Trump ‘sudden recovery’ and his stunning appearance at the White House  and removal his mask along with his gibberish speech that he has learnt a lot about COVID-19 and that one can fight the disease easily  reminded many of the conman potrayed by Steve Martin in the movie ‘Leap Of Faith.”   His announcement that he tested with ...
Source: COVID-19  Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19: A Harvard led research on what can be termed as the world’s first detailed HLA-I immunopeptidomesStudy of SARSCoV-2-infected human cell lines while giving new insights into immune responses has also proven alarmingly details that the SARS-CoV-2 SARS-CoV-2 infection interferes with cellular pathways that may impact HLA-I peptide processing and presentation and immune signaling. &n...
Neuro-COVID-19  Oct 06, 2020  4 years ago
Neuro-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine-Chicago reveals concerning new findings: Neurological symptoms occur in 8 of 10 hospitalized COVID-19 patients or about 80 percent of all such patients.   Typical manifestations include muscle pain, headaches, dizziness, encephalopathy and "brain fog."  ...
Source: Global COVID-19 News  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
Global COVID-19 News:  The Global COVID-19 reported death rates have now reached 1,037,585 and while the total number of COVID-19 infections has now approached 35,189,128.   Russia Health authorities in Russia reported on Monday a record a rise in coronavirus cases close to the maximum level in May but the country has stopped short of reimposing strict lockdown measures.   Now th...
Source: Trump and COVID-19  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
Trump-COVID-19: The president’s personal physician has now acknowledged delivering an overly rosy picture of his illness a day earlier to please his notoriously sensitive patient but declined to comment on the actual status of his patient, adding more confusion to the developing situation. Health experts after analyzing details of the briefing on Sunday coupled with previous press briefin...
Source: COVID-19-News  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study led by British researchers from University Of Surrey along with scientist from University of Manchester, Aston University, University of Leicester and the Frimley Health NHS Trust Hospital have found that most individuals infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease are likely to develop dyslipidemia and changes in their sebum lipodomes that ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 News  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 News: Researchers from the University of Barcelona-Spain; Xiamen University0China; and IHU-Méditerranée Infection and CNRS-France provide more new evidence to dispute the hypothesis that pangolins were the intermediate animals in SARS-CoV-2 transmission to humans.   Their research findings are published in the peer-reviewed journal: Infection, Genetics and Evolution...
Source: COVID-19 Test  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Test: A large multidisciplinary group of researchers from University of California-San Francisco, J. David Gladstone Institutes-San Francisco, University of California-Berkeley, Monash University-Australia and  Chan Zuckerberg Biohub-San Francisco have developed an amplification-free CRISPR-based mobile phone assay for direct detection of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronav...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), by detail analysis of the airway cell transcriptome have identified an activated immune axis that could pinpoint the COVID-19 patients who will most benefit from targeted therapies.   The study team re-analyzed published scRNA-seq data of COVID-19 patient bronchoalveolar lavage fluid...
Source: Trump-COVID-19 Updates  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
Trump-COVID-19 Updates: Trump’s doctors said on early Sunday that he "continued to improve" as he is being treated for COVID-19 at a military hospital near Washington, adding that he could be discharged as early as Monday. Dr Brian Garibaldi During an early Sunday briefing outside Walter Reed medical center, the doctors said that Trump's oxygen levels had briefly dropped onl...
Source: Vaccine News  Oct 05, 2020  4 years ago
Vaccine News: Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) along with support from Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, have developed a platform technology that uses red blood cells to deliver antigens to antigen-presenting cells (APCs) in the spleen, generating ...
Source: COVID-19 And Eyes  Oct 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19-Eyes: Doctors from India have reported the first documented case vasculitic retinal vein occlusion due to COVID-19.   The documented report was submitted by Dr Jay Umed Sheth and colleagues from the Surya Eye Institute and Research Centre in Mumbai.   The detailed case report has been published in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology. https://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-47...
Source: COVID-19 And Cancer  Oct 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19-Cancer: A new study by researchers from The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) have shown that SARS-CoV-2 encoded proteins along with certain drugs currently used in COVID-19 treatment protocols are able to induce lytic reactivation of Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV), one of major human oncogenic viruses through manipulation of intracellular signaling ...
Source: TRUMP-COVID-19 Cluster  Oct 03, 2020  4 years ago
TRUMP-COVID-19 Cluster: More reports are emerging that not only has  Trumps Election Campaign  Manager Bill Stepien tested positive but many others close to him or interacted with him the past week have also tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   It must be noted that American President seldom wears any protective mask and that he was never seen in it especially the las...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Oct 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: An urgent immediate safety review of the drug Remdesivir has been called by the European Medicines Agency after numerous COVID-19 patients taking the drug have developed serious kidney problems.   The EU regulator issued a statement a few hours ago saying that it seemed that remdesivir was causing the "acute kidney injury," and that the issue "warrants further...
Source: COVID-19 Testing  Oct 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Testing: Researchers from University of Vermont, working in collaboration with a group from the University of Washington, have developed a platform of testing for the COVID-19 disease that does not make use of key chemicals, or reagents but still delivers an accurate result, paving the way for inexpensive, widely available testing in both developing countries and industrialized nations li...
Source: Trump-COVID-19:  Oct 03, 2020  4 years ago
Trump-COVID-19: President Donald Trump is receiving an experimental treatment of synthetic antibodies for COVID-19, his doctor said Friday, and is "fatigued but in good spirits." President Leaving For Walter Reed Military Hospital President Trump received a single dose of Regeneron's antibody cocktail, according to a letter issued by White House physician Dr Sean Conley.   Th...
Source: COVID-19 Thailand News  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Thailand News: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra who is in self-exile and certain members of his family were sent to hospital for contracting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus according to emerging media reports.   Thaksin currently lives in a massive mansion in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.   It was reported that he was feeling unwell since yesterday and...
Source: COVID-19 BREAKING UPDATES  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 BREAKING UPDATES! Challenging times are back again and this time it is going to be even more worse and it would be truly interesting seeing those who were in denial or those who were saying that COVID-19 is non-existence or those who were accusing this website of fear mongering etc.   Since January till now, all our predictions, hypothesis etc have never been wrong and in fact we h...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: Rooibos a popular herbal tea that is obtained from the leaves of a South African shrub Aspalathus linearis, is now being the center of focus in a series of international studies to assess its possible use as an adjuvant to treat COVID-19 and also as a ingredient in a series of herbal products to treat COVID-19 and also as a prophylaxis against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   D...
Source: U.S. News  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
U.S.News:  President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have contracted the COVID-19 disease according to an announcement by Trump himself and also by his wife and the first announcement was not by any White House official or Health Professional!   President Donald Trump announced early Friday that he and his wife both tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, an extraordinary de...
Source: Virus News  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
Virus News: A new study by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna highlights the risk of hospitalized COVID-19 patients developing venous thromboembolism or VTE.   The study findings were published in the journal: Research and Practice In Thrombosis and Haemostasis. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rth2.12439   The study which for the first time, provide an in-dep...
Source: Medical Law  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
Medical Law: According to a new research paper in the journal Science co-written by a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign legal expert who studies the policy implications of advanced biotechnologies. well-intentioned “citizen scientists” developing homemade COVID-19 vaccines may believe they are inoculating themselves against the ongoing pandemic, but the pract...
Source: Parkinson's Disease-COVID-19  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
Parkinson's Disease-COVID-19: Researchers from University of Iowa in a new study involving approximately 80,000 patients shows that individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) have a 30% higher risk of dying from COVID-19 than individuals without the neurodegenerative condition.   The study findings were published in the journal: Movement Disorders, the official journal of the Interna...
Source: Immune System  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
Immune System: Emerging research by scientist from  University of Rochester-New York show how different cells in the immune system work together, communicate, and in the case of cells called neutrophils bring about their own death to help fight off infections.   The study findings are published in the journal: Nature. Immunology https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-020-0746-x &n...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Oct 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a new research study have discovered high-affinity peptide binders for the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein that can inhibit infection. The study also opens the door for the development of rapid viral identification or conjugates for virus-directed delivery of therapeutics.   The study findings ...
Source: Canada News  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Canada News:  It was announced on Latest on Wednesday that Canada has extended a ban on non-essential international entries until the end of October as the country was gripped by a surge in COVID-19 cases.   The further extension comes amid a second wave of infections caused in part by the return to school or work of millions of Canadians after summer breaks.   Public Sa...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine-Pittsburgh and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai-New York, in a new study involving the autopsy and histological studies of dead COVID-19 patients who had severe conditions, have discovered the extensive lung tissue and cell damage that infection with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes.   The study findin...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Strains  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Strains: Researchers from Philippines and Thailand in a new study have identified a total of 23 different distinct strains circulating in the Philippines including the potent and infectious D614G Strains.   The study results are published on a preprint server but are currently being peer-reviewed for publication into a journal. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.29.2...
Source: Pregnancy And COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Pregnancy And COVID-19: Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto, Sinai Health Systems-Toronto, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute-Toronto along with support from the University of Minas Gerais-Brazil have in a new study found that maternal immune cells actually help to spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to the placenta.   In the study, the researchers provided evidence that u...
Source: Vaccines-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Vaccines-COVID-19: The NIAID And Moderna Inc  Phase 1 clinical trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection has shown that the vaccine is well-tolerated and generates a strong immune response in older adults.   The trial results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2028436   The new experimental v...
Source: AI-Artificial-Intelligence-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
AI-Artificial Intelligence-COVID-19: Researchers from the U.S. NIH, University of Central Florida, State University of New York, NVIDIA Corporation and University of Milano have developed an  algorithm can accurately identify COVID-19 cases, as well as distinguish them from influenza.   The study shows that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate if not even better than a phy...
Source: Drugs-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Drugs-COVID-19: Anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs or TNF inhibitors are now being explored by numerous researchers to treat COVID-19 after recent studies of patients with COVID-19 have shown that patients already taking anti-TNF drugs for inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory arthritis are less likely to be admitted to hospital. The same was not observed for patients taking other ...
Source: Delirium-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Delirium-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from King's College London involving detailed meta-analysis of data and information procured from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London, has shown that delirium, a state of acute confusion associated with a higher risk of serious illness and death is a key symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older individu...
Source: Strokes-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Strokes-COVID-19: According to a new study led by Canadian researchers from Western University -Ontario, strokes may be the first presenting symptom of COVID-19 in younger patients who are typically asymptomatic.   The new study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. https://n.neurology.org/content/early/202...
Source: U.S. News  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
U.S. News: Most Americans were oblivious to our headlines and breaking news today on a new research that confirms that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus actually attacks the CD4 T Cells, literally elevating the COVID-19 disease to a ‘potent airborne HIV-like disease.’ https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-news-covid-19-study-reveals-that-sars-cov-2-uses-cd4-cells-to-infect-t-helper-l...
Source: COVID-19 Intranasal Drugs  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Intranasal Drugs: Researchers from the National Infection Service-UK, Ena Respiratory, Melbourne-Australia, The University of Melbourne-Australia, University of Newcastle-Australia and Oxford University-UK are exploring the usage of TLR2/6 Agonist INNA-051 as an intranasal prophylaxis against COVID-19.   To date their vivo studies involving animal models showed that the TLR2 agonis...
Source: Obstructive Sleep Apnea  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) increases the risk of severe COVID-19 according to a new research led by University of Helsinki-Finland and involving Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital.   Information regarding obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis and COVID-19 infection was extracted from the FinnGen study (N=260,405) with a total of 305 ...
Source: BREAKING NEWS  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
Breaking News: A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from University of Campinas (UNICAMP)- Brazil have in a new study discovered and proved that the SARS-CoV-2 infects human CD4+ T helper cells, but not CD8+ T cells, and is present in blood and bronchoalveolar lavage T helper cells of severe COVID-19 patients.   The study findings are published on a preprint server but are already being...
Source: COVID-19 Latest Headlines  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest Headlines: Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have utilized VirScan, a technology that can determine which of more than 1,000 different viruses have infected an individual including SARS-CoV-2 to discover more than 800 epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 genome. The epitope is the part of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself to. ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A study led by researchers from the University of Cincinnati along with scientists from University of Duisburg-Germany, the German Primate Center  and Saarland University-Germany have discovered that sphingosine, a naturally occurring lipid in the human body could be used as a potential treatment for COVID-19 as prevents binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike to its cellular receptor ...

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