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"A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 is urgently needed in quantities sufficient to immunise large populations. We report the preclinical development of two BNT162b vaccine candidates,...
12 February 2021 6,949 9 View
A usually overlooked region of a key SARS-CoV-2 protein is an important chink in the virus’s Armour. Neutralizing antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 block particles of the virus, which makes them some...
21 January 2021 8,239 5 View
A candidate vaccine spurs both younger and older people to make antibodies against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to early trial results. The vaccine, which is under development by Johnson...
15 January 2021 8,357 6 View
A handful of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 can help it to escape the immune response mounted by a subset of infected people. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w Comprehensive mapping of...
14 January 2021 9,682 3 View
The presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies confers subsequent immunity in most people for at least six months, a study of healthcare workers in Oxford, UK, has...
01 January 2021 9,154 6 View
Most vaccines contain an infectious pathogen or a part of it, but mRNA vaccines deliver the genetic instructions for our cells to make viral or bacterial proteins themselves. Our immune system...
26 December 2020 4,128 4 View
Almost 50% of US residents and ~ 33 % Britons have refused vaccination on one pretext or the other!! Angst related to side effects could be a cause or the alacrity of the vaccination's manufacture...
18 December 2020 1,904 17 View
Researchers are developing a portable device that gives rapid, accurate test results with the help of a regular smartphone camera. By estimating the number of virus particles in samples, the...
10 December 2020 3,134 4 View
A COVID-19 vaccine candidate made of tiny artificial particles could be more powerful than other leading varieties at triggering a protective immune response. When the team injected mice with...
07 November 2020 5,032 4 View
Variants of SARS-CoV-2 with a widespread mutation are more infectious in human cells and hamsters, compared with viral variants lacking the change.In February 2020, researchers examining samples...
02 October 2020 2,015 5 View
Self explanatory!!
17 June 2020 7,531 9 View
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31208-3/fulltext
09 June 2020 2,321 4 View
People with type 1 diabetes are more likely to die of Covid-19 than those with type 2, according to NHS research confirming that diabetes significantly increases coronavirus sufferers’ risk of...
21 May 2020 7,262 12 View
In the continuing hunt for antibodies that could fight the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, researchers have mostly looked at people who have already contracted Covid-19. There have been at least two...
21 May 2020 8,086 4 View
A spate of recent media headlines have described blood thinning medications – which include aspirin and warfarin – as a “breakthrough treatment” for COVID-19 that could “save lives”. It’s early...
20 May 2020 8,673 5 View
An antibody discovered in the blood of a person who survived SARS could help others to fight COVID-19.The coronavirus that caused the 2003 SARS outbreak is a distant relative of SARS-CoV-2, the...
20 May 2020 4,559 4 View
A phase II clinical trial has found that a combination of three drugs — interferon beta-1b, lopinavir-ritonavir, and ribavirin — plus standard care is successful in treating mild-to-moderate cases...
13 May 2020 5,086 9 View
For structural biologists, x-ray crystallography is by far the most commonly used tool for unraveling protein structures. It also produces the highest-resolution images of structures. The process...
23 April 2020 5,390 3 View
Here is the germane citation: Calvin J Gordon, Egor P Tchesnokov, Emma Woolner, Jason K Perry, Joy Y. Feng, Danielle P Porter, Matthias Gotte. Remdesivir is a direct-acting antiviral that...
15 April 2020 3,812 17 View
The study that seems to be making the most progress is the one being carried out @Queensland University , Australia. The project targeted the main COVID-19 virus enzyme, known as the main...
10 April 2020 6,252 10 View
It has become a Cliff Hanger Endless Dark Movie . The mortality rate prim ally associated with SARS CoV II was 1.8--2 % ; later WHO came up with the figure of 3.4 % --now when the virus has become...
09 April 2020 4,489 15 View
Over the past four months since the Outbreak of the Pandemic, studies have shown that the fatality rate in Men is about 2.8% as compared to Women's 1.7% . This observation was first made in the...
07 April 2020 1,762 4 View
Laboratory based antibody tests principally reveal whether someone has previously had the nCOVID-19. En-masse screening can gauge the overall level of immunity and in the long run, permit people...
07 April 2020 641 8 View
The Environmental Changes Brought about by Climate Change have been Subtle, yet discernible. Global Warming, Glaciers Melting , Oceans Rising are all a compelling Evidence of what Man Engineered...
06 April 2020 5,253 11 View
Passive immunisation is the term used when antibody formed in one individual is given to another individual who is at risk of infection — the protection is temporary. Active immunization is when...
29 March 2020 1,785 9 View
"Many thought a second wave was impossible in Brazil’s Amazon because of the severity of the first. A second crisis has stunned the city of Manaus, reports Luke Taylor, and raises questions around...
01 January 1970 9,721 6 View
A coalition of scientists, activists, and international organizations warn that next year only 10% of people in 67 low-income countries will be vaccinated against COVID-19. The People’s Vaccine...
01 January 1970 7,601 13 View
With careful planning and systematic assessment of the social value and risks, we believe it can be ethical to conduct some placebo-controlled trials of vaccine candidates for COVID-19 even after...
01 January 1970 1,099 9 View
Everyone knows by now the Pandemic started . What no one knows yet is how the pandemic will end. This coronavirus is unprecedented in the combination of its easy transmissibility , a range of...
01 January 1970 6,704 12 View
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.16.20194787v1 As much as two-thirds of the population of Manaus, a city of two million people in Brazil’s state of Amazonas, could have been...
01 January 1970 1,800 11 View
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the vaccine developed by Oxford University and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, with the roll out beginning on 4...
01 January 1970 9,135 5 View
The patterns of infections and deaths caused by the new coronavirus differ starkly between resource-poor settings and wealthier places, according to the largest contact-tracing study conducted so...
01 January 1970 4,051 3 View
An immunization shot is still in development, but debate over who gets priority has already begun. THE RACE TO find a vaccine against Covid-19 is well underway. It has to be—without one, the...
01 January 1970 7,161 6 View
From plant-derived antivirals to treat COVID-19, to recombinant expression technology enabling production of therapeutics, what is the role of plant science in combating pandemics ?
01 January 1970 1,343 9 View
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867420311570 Most children infected with the new coronavirus show few signs of illness, if any. But a few children are struck by a severe form of...
01 January 1970 1,549 8 View
Universities worldwide have been forced rapidly to scale up online teaching, which has typically entailed unexpected expenditure. They have had to find money to continue paying their staff, as...
01 January 1970 6,244 34 View
Drugs Remdesivir and the the anti malarial medication 'hydrochloroquine' and /or a combo of both have failed the trial test , what is next in store for humanity at large? Unless a curative...
01 January 1970 8,876 3 View
John Hopkins University Researchers claim the famous RT-PCR test is 20% erroneous. Reference: Variation in False-Negative Rate of Reverse Transcriptase Po...
01 January 1970 1,926 6 View
The worldwide death toll from the new coronavirus has surpassed 101,000 amid about 1.6 million cases and more than 372,000 recoveries, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. Italy has...
01 January 1970 4,408 8 View
Reference: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext
01 January 1970 8,095 5 View
Since the Pandemic visited its wrath on the Planet Earth , the data garnered to date shows the Minority Class in practically all countries, is suffering the most casualties disproportionately...
01 January 1970 4,853 12 View
