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OCF is assisting its customers to get involved in “Folding@home” in the fight against COVID-19.

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists announced a potential vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic. When tested in mice, the vaccine, delivered through a fingertip-sized patch, produces antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2 at quantities thought to be sufficient for neutralizing the virus.

Researchers have solved the detailed structure of the transport protein responsible for the iron supply in the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (TB). This could open up novel ways to develop targeted TB drugs.

Understanding how the protein tau moves between neurons could provide insight into possible treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

New studies have helped to improve understanding of the biology of brown fat and its implications for weight loss and obesity-related diseases.

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with colleagues from the CENIEH (National Research Center on Human Evolution) in Burgos, Spain, and other institutions, have retrieved genetic information from an 800,000-year-old human fossil for the first time.

Microbiologists at Goethe University Frankfurt have discovered how the bacterium Acetobacterium woodii uses hydrogen in a kind of cycle to conserve energy.

Scientists have identified a new control mechanism that enables stem cells to adapt their activity in emergency situations.

Scientists have developed the first blood test that can accurately detect more than 50 different types of cancer. It can also identify in which tissue the cancer originated, often before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease present.

A study refutes two other studies pointing to snakes as an intermediate host and suggests that scaly, anteater-like animals called pangolins are the missing link for SARS-CoV-2 transmission between bats and humans.