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July 26, 2020
When the pathogen enters the human body, it will trigger a local alarm and send a signal to the immune system to make it take action to eliminate these objects. This is true whether it is a virus, bacteria, or other types of microorganisms. The same thing happened to the new coronavirus. However, some immune […]
July 25, 2020
With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off. It turns out that the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the same advantage entering cells. It possesses the code to waltz right in. On July 24 in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health […]
July 25, 2020
Scientists have a new treatment idea for the novel coronavirus that came about after they figured out what makes the virus so dangerous to our bodies: The pathogen camouflages itself after infecting cells to prevent a swift response from the immune system. Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center identified an enzyme the […]
July 24, 2020
Thiruselvam Viswanathan, Shailee Arya, Siu-Hong Chan, Shan Qi, Nan Dai, Anurag Misra, Jun-Gyu Park, Fatai Oladunni, Dmytro Kovalskyy, Robert A. Hromas, Luis Martinez-Sobrido & Yogesh K. Gupta Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 3718 (2020) Abstract The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19 illness, has caused millions of infections worldwide. In […]
July 24, 2020
The COVID-19-causing coronavirus disguises itself so it can hide inside our cells without being detected by the immune system in order to replicate, according to a study. For the paper published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists examined the 3D structure of a protein called nsp16 that the coronavirus creates.
July 24, 2020
A team of scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio found out what makes SARS-CoV-2, so infectious. Scientists claim that the virus is capable of sneaking into our cells. The virus produces an enzyme called nsp16, which it then uses to modify its messenger RNA cap. It is said that […]
July 24, 2020
With an alarm code, we can enter a building without bells going off. It turns out that the SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has the same advantage in entering cells. It possesses the code to waltz right in. Today (July 24, 2020), in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio […]
July 22, 2020
Persistent fatigue as a result of COVID-19 could be widespread. According to a small study, persistent tiredness and exhaustion are quite common consequences of having suffered COVID-19. Women are more often affected than men, report researchers led by Dr. Liam Townsend from Trinity College Dublin. Of 128 study participants, a little more than half (52.3 percent) felt bruised for […]