Tag: Coronavirus Disease

March 7, 2022

Researchers from Columbia Engineering, Fiocruz’s Center for Technological Development in Health and the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Brazil, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Rockefeller University recently reported that, by combining inhibitors of polymerases and exonucleases — enzymes that allow […]

November 1, 2021

Viral infections may have enormous global impacts, as evidenced by the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). History has many other examples, such as the Ebola epidemics of 2013- 2016, […]

October 26, 2021

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has ripped through the world, causing millions of new acute infections. Many of these develop coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and some are left with post-acute sequelae. This is sometimes called long covid. […]

October 19, 2021

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic progressed across the world, leaving hundreds of millions of infections in its wake, about one in ten found themselves experiencing prolonged symptoms of ill-health even after the virus had been eliminated from the […]

October 19, 2021

A Pfizer-funded large study of breakthrough infections in immunocompromised people following two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) concluded that the vaccine largely prevented such infections, but that immunocompromised people would be […]

September 30, 2021

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been the focus of molecular research over the past 18 months. Despite the efforts behind the development of vaccines against the severe acute respiratory distress syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the relationship and dynamics between host and viral […]

September 13, 2021

Vaccines have proven effective at helping control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In many developed countries, extensive vaccination programs have begun, and death rates have dropped. However, the need for constant refrigeration, long supply chains, and trained personnel have […]

August 30, 2021

While the majority of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience only mild symptoms, a significant minority progress to severe or critical symptoms with high rates of mortality. Many risk factors associated with more serious symptoms such as respiratory failure and pneumonia […]

July 13, 2021

Even as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to threaten the world with resurgences in many countries, the risk posed by various degrees of infection, from asymptomatic through presymptomatic to symptomatic infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus […]

July 9, 2021

Scientists across the world are working extensively to develop various means which would aid in containing the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic soon. The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of COVID-19, […]

June 24, 2021

A team of scientists from the USA has recently predicted the driver mutations that may appear in future variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The prediction is based on currently available genetic surveillance data on amino acid […]

June 18, 2021

A new study, released as a preprint on the bioRxiv server, reveals the high neutralizing efficacy of hyperimmune horse serum against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This could prove, if validated, to be a more affordable yet […]

April 6, 2021

Several vaccines have been developed, approved and rolled out to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. However, some concern is mounting that a sufficient number of vaccine doses may not be […]

March 24, 2021

The actions of a drug or a molecular target in vitro often do not translated in a cellular or in vivo context. Membrane permeability, off-target effects, and cytotoxicity are some of the factors that may contribute to this difference. This […]

March 19, 2021

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread all over the world, its causative pathogen, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is being monitored for the emergence of new variants and alterations in viral biology. In […]

March 4, 2021

The current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been spreading rapidly for over a year. Though primarily a respiratory illness, its manifestations are often protean and may be life-threatening. […]

January 22, 2021

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), continues to spread worldwide. Over 96.97 million cases have been confirmed across 191 countries and territories, and over 2 million people have lost their […]

January 15, 2021

Healthcare workers have been on the frontline in dealing with the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Naturally, they have been exposed to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, at a much higher frequency […]

January 5, 2021

A study led by Dr. Keisuke Kondo at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan, has recently developed a spatial Susceptible–Exposed–Infectious–Recovered (SEIR) model to investigate the impacts of interregional mobility restriction on the transmission of severe acute respiratory […]

December 16, 2020

A new study has found that high levels of the chemical cadmium, is associated with an increased risk of death in patients with influenza or pneumonia. Scientists suggest that the chemical, found in cigarettes and contaminated vegetables, could increase the […]