Tag: SARS-CoV-2
Oxford Immunotec Submits Emergency Use Authorization Request to the FDA and...
OXFORD, United Kingdom and MARLBOROUGH, Mass., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Oxford Immunotec Global PLC (Nasdaq: OXFD) (the "Company"), a global, high-growth diagnostics company, announced that today...
Zymo Research Launches COVID-19 Sequencing Service for the Detection and Surveillance...
Rapid reporting at high throughput enables detection of potential vaccine escaping variant strains
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zymo Research announced today...
SARS-CoV-2 can infect neurons, damage brain tissue: Study
New York, Jan 13 | Researchers have discovered that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel some of...
New coronavirus variant: Srinagar administration puts preventive measures in place
SRINAGAR, DECEMBER 23: In the wake of the emergence of a new fast-moving variant of SARS-CoV-2 as detected in the United Kingdom and several...
Study reveals how smoking worsens Covid infection airways
New York, Nov 19 | Researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human stem cells have pinpointed how smoking cigarettes causes more...
Rapid Covid test accuracy may be lower than thought: Study
London, Nov 16 | The accuracy of a rapid finger-prick antibody test for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19 infection, may be considerably...
‘Smell, taste changes an early indication of Covid community spread’
New York, Nov 12 | An international team of researchers has revealed that self-reports of smell and taste changes provide earlier markers of the...
Covid virus can survive on phone screens for 4 weeks: Study
Sydney, Oct 11 | SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces for long periods of time as researchers at Commonwealth...
Covid during pregnancy not linked to complication in newborns
London, Sep 26 | Researchers have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, during pregnancy was not associated with complications in the newborn...
This new model may speed drug discovery for Covid-19
New York, Sep 22 | Researchers have developed a new tool that mimics how SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes Covid-19 -- infects a...
Drug with potential to fight Covid-19 identified
London, Sep 19 | Scientists have identified a new drug that could prevent or mitigate the consequences derived from infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus...
Ganga water may help check Covid, BHU conducting study
Varanasi, Sep 15 | The Institute of Medical Sciences of the Banaras Hindu University (IMS-BHU) is now looking forward to conducting human trials of...
Covid-19 may not spread through breast milk: Study
New York, Aug 20 | New research adds to the growing body of evidence that Covid-19 was unable to cause infection in the breastfed...
Scientists identify hundreds of drugs to treat Covid-19
New York, Aug 13 | Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have used machine learning (ML) to identify hundreds of new potential drugs that could...
J&J Covid-19 vaccine protected monkey in single shot
New York, July 31 | A leading candidate of Covid-19 vaccine developed by global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson raised neutralising antibodies and robustly...
Researchers develop coating that kills corona virus in 1 hour
New York, July 16 | The researchers have developed a surface coating, which, when painted on common objects like doorknobs or light switches, can...
Why Covid-19 virus is not killing bats or making them sick
New York, July 12 | Bats which are the carrier of deadly viruses that affect humans like Ebola, rabies, and possibly the SARS-CoV-2 strain...
WHO team to reach China next week to probe SARS-CoV-2 source
New Delhi, July 4 | The World Health Organization is finally sending a team to China next week to prepare to investigate the source...
No seasonal variation in Covid, immunisation only defence: Harvard scholar
New Delhi, June 27 | SARS-COV-2 has not shown any seasonal pattern so far, although higher incidence and caseloads are seen in areas with...
Neutralizing antibodies against Covid-19 virus identified
New York, June 16 | Researchers have identified several human antibodies that target SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, according to three papers published...
Fauci dismisses theory coronavirus originated in Chinese lab
Washington, May 6 | Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially...
Guj scientists studying SARS-CoV-2 to explain higher mortality rate
Gandhinagar, April 27 | The Gujarat Biotechnology Research Centre (GBRC) has taken up study of the mutation of SARS-COV-2, the virus responsible for corona...
‘Asymptomatic transmission Achilles’ heel of COVID-19 strategies’
London, April 26 | Calling for unprecedented measures to defeat COVID-19, researchers form University of California, San Francisco have said that asymptomatic transmission of...
Experts question study linking stray dogs to SARS-CoV-2 spread
New Delhi, April 19 | After a study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution proposed that stray dogs might have played a...
University of Pittsburgh reports successful COVID-19 vaccine trial
New York, April 3 | As governments the world over frantically look for a treatment for COVID-19, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's School...
Canadian researchers developing DNA vaccine against COVID-19
Toronto, March 27 | Canadian researchers are developing a DNA vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and has currently infected nearly...
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Petrol prices unchanged across metros for 8th day
New Delhi, March 7 | Oil marketing companies (OMC) kept fuel prices unchanged for the eighth consecutive day across the four metros on Sunday.In...
