Tag: Coronavirus

July 22, 2021

Safe and effective vaccines offer hope for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the possible emergence of vaccine-resistant SARS-CoV-2 variants, as well as novel coronaviruses, make finding treatments that work against all coronaviruses as important as ever. Now, researchers […]

July 15, 2021

More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, experts have unraveled so many mysteries about how to treat the virus and prevent it. But at the same time, SARS-CoV-2 is always changing as new variants emerge. And accordingly, the ways […]

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 6, 2021

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causal agent of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and has been identified as the third human coronavirus outbreak of the 21st century. Though predominantly a respiratory virus, SARS-CoV-2 can […]

July 6, 2021

Multiple vaccine candidates based on RNA and DNA technologies, inactivated viruses, and other approaches have been rapidly developed to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of COVID-19, poses a […]

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 22, 2021

The highly infectious nature of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is largely due to its affinity for mutations that continue to evolve and emerge throughout the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Several novel features of SARS-CoV-2 […]

June 22, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the global outbreak of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has crippled public health systems and national economies globally. While vaccination campaigns are rapidly rolling out in many parts […]

June 21, 2021

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein has been the main target for the development of vaccines and other therapeutics needed to treat COVID-19 illness. New research published in the journal Future Medicine found the SARS-CoV-2 spike […]

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 […]

June 10, 2021

A new study suggests that the rollout of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be significant not only in preventing infections by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) but other endemic and pandemic-potential coronaviruses (CoVs) […]

June 7, 2021

When we inhale isolated coronavirus particles, more than 65% reach the deepest region of our lungs where damage to cells can lead to low blood oxygen levels, new research has discovered, and more of these aerosols reach the right lung […]

May 20, 2021

Fast-spreading variants of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, carry mutations that enable the virus to escape some of the immune response created naturally or by vaccination. A new study from scientists at Scripps Research, along with collaborators in Germany and the […]

May 19, 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a viral infection caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). This disease caused the most severe pandemic of this century, with almost 150 million documented infections, over three million deaths, and is […]

May 19, 2021

Scientists from the University of Birmingham and the Public Health England, UK, have recently investigated the dynamics of immune responses in elderly people who have received two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine at a standard or […]

May 10, 2021

Severe cases of COVID-19 can now be detected at an early stage. Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified the first biomarker that can reliably predict which patients will develop severe symptoms. This can help to improve the treatment […]

May 6, 2021

Transplant patients are typically on chronic immunosuppression, making them automatically more vulnerable to infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the loss of over three million lives in the current coronavirus disease 2019 […]

May 4, 2021

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his administration’s latest goals in the fight against the coronavirus: getting 70% of U.S. adults to receive at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, and having 160 million adults fully vaccinated, by July […]

April 26, 2021

The phase 3 trials of the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines did not include those with a known previous severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Recent evidence indicates that mRNA vaccines may induce more adverse […]

April 26, 2021

The Biden administration is slated to relax federal public health guidance on wearing masks outdoors as soon as this week, a source familiar with the plans told NBC News. The announcement, which may come as early as Tuesday, could give […]