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UK's policy places people aged 60-69 at increased risk of COVID-19

The 7.3 million people in the UK aged between 60 and 69 are at increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19.

22 Apr 2020

Convalescent plasma can be donated by COVID-19 survivors at Grifols’ donor centers

Grifols, a global healthcare company with a track record of more than 100 years and a recognized leader in the development and production of plasma-derived medicines, today announced it has begun identifying, screening and selecting volunteer donors who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate their plasma in select U.S. cities.

22 Apr 2020

New database of 14,000 known macrolactones could support drug discovery and research

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Collaborations Pharmaceuticals have created a free-to-use database of 14,000 known macrolactones - large molecules used in drug development - which contains information about the molecular characteristics, chemical diversity and biological activities of this structural class.

22 Apr 2020

Research offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 gets into respiratory tissue and exploits our defenses

What makes SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, such a threat? A new study, led by Jose Ordovas-Montanes, Ph.D. at Boston Children's Hospital and Alex K. Shalek, Ph.D. at MIT, pinpoints the likely cell types the virus infects.

22 Apr 2020

Nanostics to create new blood test to forecast the severity of COVID-19 in patients

Nanostics Inc., a diagnostic healthcare company that focuses on developing tests to determine a patient's disease risk, announced today plans to develop and validate ClarityDX COVID-19; a simple blood test to predict the severity of COVID-19 disease in patients.

22 Apr 2020

Study sheds light on the importance of protecting people from cyber sextortion offenders

Researchers from Michigan State University released a study on "sextortion" - a lesser-known internet crime that poses a threat to adults and minors - that sheds light on the importance of protecting the public from online criminals.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers identify biological mechanism in depressed individuals

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report that in depressed individuals there are increased amounts of an unmodified structural protein, called tubulin, in lipid rafts - fatty sections of a cell membrane - compared with non-depressed individuals.

22 Apr 2020

Nicaragua records sharp decline in intimate partner violence

The percentage of women and girls in Nicaragua's second-largest city who reported experiencing physical violence by their partners during their lifetimes decreased from 55% in 1995 to 28% in 2016, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ Global Health.

22 Apr 2020

Study reveals surprising findings on gene involved in human pregnancy

From an evolutionary perspective, human pregnancy is quite strange, says University at Buffalo biologist Vincent Lynch.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers design UV sterilization stations to kill coronavirus on any surface

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into its second month across the U.S., supplies of personal protective equipment such as N95 masks and face shields continue to run low at many hospitals.

22 Apr 2020

New findings could make immunotherapy treatments effective for more cancer patients

Scientists have developed a new way to map the molecules on tumour cells that flag their presence to the immune system, according to a study published today in eLife.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers are exploring potential therapy for controlling infectious diseases

The engineering of specific virus-targeting receptors onto a patient's own immune cells is now being explored by scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS), as a potential therapy for controlling infectious diseases, including the COVID-19-causing virus, SARS-CoV-2.

22 Apr 2020

Urban expansion is creating “new ecological niches” for spread of infectious diseases

An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Lincoln, UK, and York University, Canada, investigated how the global trend towards urbanization has contributed to the rise in the total number of disease outbreaks per decade since the 1980s.

22 Apr 2020

Making long-term research project a translational success

The Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) is helping the scientists to make the long-term research project a translational success.

22 Apr 2020

Using community memory to figure out the incubation period for COVID-19

The COVID-19 epidemic that began at the end of 2019 in China’s Wuhan city has now spread to over 185 countries and territories, taking over 177,000 lives out of approximately 2.5 million reported cases. Without either a vaccine or a reliable cure at hand, public health authorities are stretched to contain the virus spread.

22 Apr 2020

Researchers examine consumers’ shopping and cooking habits before and during Covid19 restrictions

Flour is up there with toilet roll as a commodity that is in high demand at the moment. Retailers are working closely with suppliers to keep stocks of baking ingredients on shelves as a result of the dramatic rise in the number of people who are baking in response to Covid19 restrictions.

22 Apr 2020

Research: Peptide makes older antibiotics effective again at doses 100 times lower than usual

A peptide renders older antibiotics effective again at doses 100 times lower than the common dosage, as shown by research from örebro University.

22 Apr 2020

Online searches predict daily incidence, deaths due to COVID-19 in US

The pandemic COVID-19 has affected more than 825,000 people in the US, but the daily number of new cases and deaths is not precise. A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in April 2020 reports that Internet search interest could be used as a means to predict the daily incidence of cases in the US, as was proved in China.

21 Apr 2020

Study emphasizes on protective measures to control COVID-19 pandemic

The authors of the statement emphasise that, in light of the psychological, social, economic, civil society, and political problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic, curbing its spread must be given the highest priority.

21 Apr 2020

Pets have a low risk of transmitting multi-drug resistant bugs to owners, study finds

Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. About 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, just like the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) that’s caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Domesticated animals such as pets can carry parasites and other pathogens to people. However, a new study suggests that pets are not a significant source of transmission to humans.

21 Apr 2020

Research News and Research

UK's policy places people aged 60-69 at increased risk of COVID-19

Convalescent plasma can be donated by COVID-19 survivors at Grifols’ donor centers

New database of 14,000 known macrolactones could support drug discovery and research

Research offers clues to how SARS-CoV-2 gets into respiratory tissue and exploits our defenses

Nanostics to create new blood test to forecast the severity of COVID-19 in patients

Study sheds light on the importance of protecting people from cyber sextortion offenders

Researchers identify biological mechanism in depressed individuals

Nicaragua records sharp decline in intimate partner violence

Study reveals surprising findings on gene involved in human pregnancy

Researchers design UV sterilization stations to kill coronavirus on any surface

New findings could make immunotherapy treatments effective for more cancer patients

Researchers are exploring potential therapy for controlling infectious diseases

Urban expansion is creating “new ecological niches” for spread of infectious diseases

Making long-term research project a translational success

Using community memory to figure out the incubation period for COVID-19

Researchers examine consumers’ shopping and cooking habits before and during Covid19 restrictions

Research: Peptide makes older antibiotics effective again at doses 100 times lower than usual

Online searches predict daily incidence, deaths due to COVID-19 in US

Study emphasizes on protective measures to control COVID-19 pandemic

Pets have a low risk of transmitting multi-drug resistant bugs to owners, study finds

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