Researchers propose that antimalarial medications could be repurposed to treat COVID-19 Kumar Jeetendra | October 20, 2020 An international group of researchers believe there is enough evidence that anti-malarial drugs could be repurposed to treat COVID-19 and they need to be evaluated for efficacy in clinical trials. The review article, published online in Trends in Parasitology, summarizes the evidence for its antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties of particular anti-malarial drugs which could play …
CN Bio declares dispatch of medication digestion and wellbeing poisonousness testing administrations Kumar Jeetendra | October 31, 2020 Liver toxicity is a principal safety concern during drug discovery and development, with the potential to terminate expensive clinical trials already underway. The new services will incorporate the Company’s advanced Liver-on-Chip technology and experience in the field to enable researchers to create predictive and human-relevant data, improving the translatability from discovery to clinic, and hastening …
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 …
Washing hands and Halloween candy can diminish COVID-19 introduction hazard Kumar Jeetendra | November 2, 2020 New research indicates that COVID-19 exposure risk from contaminated candy might be successfully mitigated either by washing hands and washing candy with a simple at-home technique. A group of researchers published this work today in mSystems, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The researchers enrolled 10 recently diagnosed asymptomatic or mildly/moderately symptomatic …
Engineered counter acting agent may forestall Covid from contaminating human cells Kumar Jeetendra | November 4, 2020 By screening hundreds of artificial antibodies, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and EMBL Hamburg in Germany have identified an antibody that may prevent the new coronavirus from infecting human cells. The analysis, which is printed in the journal Nature Communications, also reveals how electrons can be quickly generated in the event of future pandemics. …
New SARS-CoV-2 IgM assay introduced by Beckman Coulter in countries accepting the CE Mark Kumar Jeetendra | November 12, 2020 Beckman Coulter, a medical diagnostics pioneer, today announced the launching of its accessibility SARS-CoV-2 Immunoglobulin M (IgM) assay in countries accepting the CE Mark. The brand new IgM antibody test revealed 99.9% specificity with 1,400 negative trials and 100% sensitivity at >18 times post symptom onset and post positive PCR. Beckman Coulter’s IgM assay is …
ATCC presents new product with launch of SARS-CoV-2 external control unit Kumar Jeetendra | December 4, 2020 The ready-to-run kit provides controls in the rapidly changing COVID-19 testing landscape as a workflow-optimized kit with complete genome coverage that is widely compatible with most commercial and laboratory-developed tests. Federal regulation requires that clinical laboratories assess the performance of their testing applications. This new ATCC kit is a practical, kitted solution clinical laboratories can …
CRISPR-based test could give fast, affordable testing to help control COVID-19 spread Kumar Jeetendra | December 7, 2020 Imagine swabbing your nostrils, putting the swab in a device, and obtaining a read-out on your mobile phone in 15 to 30 minutes which tells you if you’re infected with the COVID-19 virus. This has been the vision for a group of scientists at Gladstone Institutes, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and University of …
IGC analysts get three out of six European Research Council grants Kumar Jeetendra | December 11, 2020 Since the establishment of the European Research Council in 2008, the IGC has secured 17 of the competitive grants (7 Beginning, 8 Consolidator and two Advanced). In 2021, with the beginning of the new grants awarded this month, it will have ten active grants. The year of 2020 marks a total of 327 researchers chosen …
Study: Most pregnant patients tested positive for Covid were asymptomatic Kumar Jeetendra | December 12, 2020 The pregnant patients who tested positive for the coronavirus were also more likely than those who tested negative to identify as Hispanic and report their primary language as Spanish. In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of worldwide screenings for SARS-Cov-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, implemented in the labor and delivery unit of Elmhurst Hospital in …
First enzyme driven biocatalytic creation of nucleic acid structure blocks Kumar Jeetendra | December 15, 2020 Researchers in TU Graz and acib succeed in the first enzyme-driven biocatalytic synthesis of lipoic acid building blocks. This facilitates the development of antiviral agents and RNA-based therapeutics. Because of this COVID 19 pandemic and the related intensive search for therapeutics and vaccines, the chemical substance class of nucleosides is undergoing an enormous increase in …
Digital chest drainage systems could help reduce COVID-19 spread, research show Kumar Jeetendra | December 20, 2020 Pioneering research, which reveals digital chest drains generate and disperse less aerosol generated particles in comparison to traditional water seal systems, has been published in the Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery journal. The research was led by a group of thoracic consultants from Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust — home to one …
