New, more infectious strain of Covid-19 now dominates global cases of virus
"Researchers have shown that a variation in the viral genome of Covid-19 improved its ability to infect human cells and...
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COVID-19 threatens the entire nervous system
"Neurological symptoms may appear before fever or cough" SOURCE: Northwestern Now A new review of neurological symptoms of COVID-19 patients...
Mutated corona virus shows significant boost in infectivity
"COVID-19-causing viral variant taking over in the United States and Europe now carries more functional, cell-binding spikes." SOURCE: Scripps Research...
Decoding COVID-19
"This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education and policy related to...
Biomarkers identified to predict disease progression in COVID-19 patients
"The researchers hope their findings will lead to the development of simple routine tests to check for the levels for...
Why we should trust registered clinical trials
"New research finds reassuring evidence about the integrity of clinical trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov, with some concerns only regarding small...
One for two: MIT engineers develops a shared ventilator
"Suggested design could make it easier to divide air flow for Covid-19 patients in emergencies when no other options are...
First cases of COVID-19 in New York City primarily from European and US sources
"The authors sequenced 90 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from 84 of the over 800 confirmed COVID-19 positive cases and analyzed these sequences...
Placentas from COVID-19 positive pregnant women show injury
"Findings suggests abnormal blood flow between mothers, babies in utero" Source: Northwestern Now news release The placentas from 16 women...
A self-assembling nanoparticle, NSP10 is an emerging ‘game-changer’ vaccine technology
"Predictive oncology is licensing and partnering this groundbreaking nsp10 technology in the race to develop a vaccine for development" Source:...
Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates
"Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications." Source: Northwestern University After studying global data from...
Mutations in SARS-CoV-2 offer insights into virus evolution
"A UCL-led research team has characterised patterns of diversity of SARS-CoV-2 virus genome, offering clues to direct drugs and vaccine...