The COVID-19 Pandemic – News and Features

Researchers have discovered a molecular mechanism that helps herpes simplex virus to infect the brain.

With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, scientists, identified a new type of antigen-presenting immune cell. that plays a crucial role presenting antigens to other immune cells during respiratory virus infections.

New COVID-19 research finds relationship in data from 20 European countries.

Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience severe complications, including death.

In most mammals, there are certain genes that can be likened to an "alarm system", informing an organism when foreign material such as a virus enters the body and triggering an immune response. A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology suggests that pangolins, despite being mammals, lack two of the genes involved in such an alarm system.

New CRISPR-based research tool delivers results in an hour in a one-step reaction; Researchers share protocol and kits to advance research and move toward clinical validation.

Clinicians from two hospitals in Boston report that the majority of even the sickest patients with COVID-19, improve when they receive existing guideline-supported treatment for respiratory failure.

The effects of lung injury, such as those sustained in COVID-19 infection, may extend beyond the lungs, suggests new research. Targeting the area of the brain responsible for control of breathing and blood flow might help accelerate the process of weaning patients from mechanical ventilators.

Scientists have uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick—research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to humans and other animals.

Australian and US researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the structure of a key genetic molecule, called RNA, and revealing for the first time how these changes impact RNA's function.