Molecular investigation of COVID-19’s subsequent wave shows freak infections connected to quick spread Kumar Jeetendra | September 24, 2020 Molecular analysis of COVID-19’s powerful second wave in Houston — from May 12 to July 7 — shows that a mutated virus strain linked to higher transmission and infection rates than the coronavirus strains that caused Houston’s first wave. Gene sequencing results from 5,085 COVID-positive patients analyzed at Houston Methodist since early March show a …
SARS-CoV-2 hereditary changes may have made COVID-19 more infectious Kumar Jeetendra | October 31, 2020 A study involving over 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds the virus which causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it longer infectious. According to the paper published in the peer reviewed journal mBIO, that mutation, known as D614G, is found in the spike protein that pries open our …
Biomarkers can foresee how hereditarily identical cells act distinctively under pressure Kumar Jeetendra | January 10, 2021 A set of biomarkers not traditionally associated with cell fate can accurately forecast how genetically identical cells behave differently under pressure, according to a UT Southwestern study. The findings, published by Cell Reports as a Dec. 1 cover story, could eventually result in more predictable responses to pharmaceutical remedies. Groups of the same types of …
Researchers build up a basic strategy to make drug precursor Kumar Jeetendra | February 27, 2021 Save your silver! It’s better used for jewellery than as a catalyst for medication. Rice University scientists have developed a greatly simplified method to make fluoroketones, precursors for drug design and manufacture that typically demand a silver catalyst. Rice chemist Julian West and grad students Yen-Chu Lu and Helen Jordan introduced a procedure for the …
