The COVID-19 Pandemic – News and Features
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Clinical-grade Wearables Offer Continuous Monitoring for COVID-19
Researchers have introduced a novel wearable device and set of data algorithms specifically tailored to catch early signs and symptoms and monitor the progression of COVID-19.
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What Are the Benefits of Cloud Technology for Life Science Firms?
The inescapable fact for modern businesses is that data is now the backbone of every organisation. In this article, IDBS's Abhay Kini discusses how cloud technology helping life science firms with data reproducibility, sharing, collation and storage across drug development.
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From Genome Engineering to COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing at IGI
The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) has launched an impressive COVID-19 diagnostic testing laboratory at UC Berkeley. Technology Networks spoke with Professor Jennifer Doudna, Executive Director at IGI and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, to learn exactly how this ambitious effort has been achieved.
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Trial of Saliva Test for COVID-19 Launched
Scientists from the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), the same UC Berkeley group that rapidly popped up a state-of-the-art COVID-19 testing laboratory in March, are now trialing a quicker way to obtain patient samples: through saliva.
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Testing Patients for Endothelial Cell Injury Could Help To Predict COVID-19 Severity
Researchers at Yale have found that injury to endothelial cells may be a key driver of COVID-19 severity and death. The discovery suggests that doctors could both test patients for endothelial cell injury, known as endotheliopathy, and mitigate it with drugs to improve patient outcomes.
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SARS-CoV-2 Can Infect Heart Cells in a Lab Dish
A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can infect heart cells in a lab dish, indicating it may be possible for heart cells in COVID-19 patients to be directly infected by the virus.
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Findings From "Mini-brain" Study Suggest SARS-CoV-2 Can Infect Human Brain Cells
A multidisciplinary team from two Johns Hopkins University institutions has found that organoids (tiny tissue cultures made from human cells that simulate whole organs) known as "mini-brains" can be infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.
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Bacteria Are Circumventing Plant Defenses To Cause Foodborne Illnesses
Researchers have found that wild strains of salmonella can circumvent a plant’s immune defense system, getting into the leaves of lettuce by opening up the plant’s tiny breathing pores.
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Gut Microbiome Confers Resistance to Cholera for Some
Many parts of the world are in the midst of a deadly pandemic of cholera, an extreme form of watery diarrhea. Scientists have discovered specific gut bacteria make some people resistant to it — a finding that could save lives.
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Molecules Identified That Shut Down SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Reaction
Researchers have discovered a library of molecules with unique structural and chemical features, capable of inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 polymerase.
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