About 1 in 5 patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, a new coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, are also infected with other respiratory viruses, according...
Two new papers published in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy provide a summary of therapeutic compounds that showed potential in fighting...
Symptoms of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, typically include a dry cough, fever and shortness of breath. But evidence...
Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have chemically synthesized a new peptide (a short protein fragment) that can bind to part...
Scientists from Gero Pte. Ltd., Singapore, have used a deep neural network to search for host-target acting antivirals among experimental and approved...
Researchers at the Treatment Center of PLA General Hospital in Beijing, China, have found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 disease...
Two recent studies concluded that snakes are the intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease, and that four...
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China. In mid-January 2020,...
Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) may increase the risk of severe COVID-19 cases, according to...
Having a baby is stressful enough without COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and all the associated misinformation. If you’re pregnant...
A combined approach of physical distancing interventions, comprising quarantine (for infected individuals and their families), school closure, and workplace...
Using the NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), researchers are preparing...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is a global health emergency. A team of researchers in Germany has figured out the structure...
There’s been some confusion recently on whether we should or shouldn’t take ibuprofen to treat symptoms of COVID-19, especially after the World Health...
A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, in 2019 and is now causing...
A team of scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute), Australia, was able to test blood samples at four different...
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid geographic spread of the COVID-19 outbreak...
Researchers from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, have released a special report in which they provide an overview of previously published...
An international team of scientists from the United States, France, China and Hong Kong was able to identify how quickly SARS-CoV-2, a novel coronavirus...
Scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology, the J. Craig Venter Institute and the University of California, San Diego used existing data from known...
