VICKI: COVID-19 CAN BE HIGH TO VISUALIZE, BUT SPIKES AROUND THE VIRUS IN CHECK THEMSELVES BY ATTACHING TO OUR LUNG RECEPTORS. HE COMING A HOST AND MORE CORONAVIRUS. UC SAN FRANCISCO JUST ANNOUNCED SOMETHING COOL. THE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR COINVENTED A COVID-19 STRAITJACKET. >> THIS IS A MOLECULE THAT WOULD BIND TO THE CORONAVIRUS INCREDIBLY TIGHTLY.…
Synthetic antibodies that researchers believe neutralize the coronavirus have been created at UCSF and could be available for use in nose sprays or inhalers within a few months if clinical trials go well. They hope the development will be a game changer in the worldwide effort to halt the pandemic. The tiny, engineered protein molecules,…
By Society for Neuroscience July 27, 2020 A perineuronal net (red) in the mouse brain, surrounding a neuron expressing Arc (green), a protein involved in memory processing. The holes in the perineuronal net may represent sites of memory storage that are regulated during sleep. Credit: Pantazopoulos et al., eNeuro 2020 Changes in Brain Cartilage May…
Singapore scientists uncover SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in recovered COVID-19 and SARS patients, and in uninfected individuals. Singapore study shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all recovered COVID-19 patients. These T cells were also found in all subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago, and in over 50% of both SARS-CoV-1 and…
By Nancy Lapid(Reuters) - The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.Open https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/yxmvjqywprz/index.html in an external browser for a Reuters graphic on vaccines and treatments in development."Exquisitely" potent coronavirus antibodies foundScientists…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…