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May 31

Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19

Emulating the human lung airway in vitro identified the SARS-CoV2-inhibiting effects of the antimalarial drug amodiaquine, which is now...

May 27

Will COVID-19 Vaccines Need a Booster? CDC Will Meet to Decide

The data is still not in on whether booster shots against COVID-19 will be necessary. The disease has only been around for slightly over...

May 25

Dogs Can Detect Over 90% of COVID-19 Cases, Even Asymptomatic Ones

Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to new research...

May 10

The COVID variant from India: What we know so far

The latest variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus, dubbed B.1.617, was first found in India and then in other countries around the world. It...

May 7

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Appear Effective Against Multiple Variants

As variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus continue to emerge and spread around the globe, experts have been concerned about how they will...

May 6

Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it supports waiving intellectual property rights for coronavirus vaccines, saying...

Apr 30

A method to assess Covid-19 transmission risks in indoor settings

MIT researchers have developed a publicly available model based on physics and data from past spreading events. Two MIT professors have...

Apr 29

Effect of COVID-19 Antiviral Remdesivir Multiplied 10-Fold by Hepatitis C Drugs

Remdesivir, the only antiviral drug approved in the United States for treating COVID-19 patients, is up to 10 times more effective when...

Apr 26

Worrisome New Coronavirus Strains Are Emerging. Why Now?

TOWARD THE END of last year, doctors in Nelson Mandela Bay, a city of about 1 million people in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, started...

Mar 22

Vaccine passports may save Europe's summer, but only for the lucky ones

The door to summer is slowly creaking open in Europe, and for those who want to stroll through it to take a vacation amid ongoing Covid...

Mar 19

‘Total game changer’: Pinpointing gene activity in tissues is aiding studies of COVID-19, Alzheimer’

As with real estate, location matters greatly for cells. Douglas Strand confirmed that truth last year when he used a new technique to...

Mar 11

First great apes at U.S. zoo receive COVID-19 vaccine made for animals

An orangutan named Karen, the first in the world to have open-heart surgery in 1994, has made medical history again: She’s among the...

Mar 5

How long do vaccines last? The surprising answers may help protect people longer

Like millions of people in the United States last year, Stanley Plotkin and his wife got vaccinated against influenza at the start of the...

Mar 2

This is how the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is different from Pfizer and Moderna’s shots

The first two COVID vaccines approved in the U.S. both use first-of-a-kind technology called messenger RNA. Johnson & Johnson’s new...

Feb 15

German sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy

A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy. The dogs are conditioned to scent out the...

Feb 10

COVID-19 Long-Hauler Therapy Space Beginning to Take Shape

It’s the chronic disease that will likely define the first half of this decade – and it’s already all too familiar to many COVID-19...

Feb 10

Inclusion in the time of COVID: 14 ways to seize the moment for change

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence suggests a widening of inequalities in academic science, technology, engineering,...

Feb 9

Why aren’t kids getting vaccinated?

While much of the world is engaged in a frantic scramble to get vaccinated against covid-19, there’s one group noticeably absent from the...

Feb 5

‘A question of choices.’ Pfizer vaccine leader on confronting new coronavirus variants

Philip Dormitzer led Pfizer’s successful coronavirus vaccine research effort, which yielded a vaccine with a stunning 95% efficacy in...

Feb 3

Why Are So Many Health-Care Workers Resisting the COVID Vaccine?

Tiffany Chance has worked as a certified nursing assistant since 2005. As an African-American woman in her mid-thirties, Chance typifies...

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