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Scientists identify new antibody for COVID-19, variants
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 2 (ANI): Research collaboration between scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has identified and tested an antibody that limits the severity of infections from a variety of coronaviruses, including those that cause COVID-1
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US funded research on several types of coronaviruses at China's Wuhan Inst
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US] September 8 (ANI): Public documents revealed that the US government has pumped USD 3.1 million into health organisation 'EcoHealth Alliance' to back COVID-19 research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Fox News reported.
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Can anyone get infected with COVID-19 through currency notes?
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], July 30 (ANI): How long do coronaviruses remain infectious on banknotes and coins? Is it possible to become infected through contact with cash? Experts at the European Central Bank, in collaboration with the Department of Medical and Molecular Virology at Ruhr-Universitat B
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Report reveals Wuhan virologist who researched on bat coronaviruses had ti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing (China) June 30 (ANI): A top Chinese Virologist from Wuhan Institute of Virology has ties to military scientists of China who had been helping her in coronavirus research.
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Chinese researchers find batch of new coronaviruses in bats: Report
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): Amid renewed calls to probe into the origins of COVID-19, Chinese researchers said they had found a batch of new coronaviruses in bats.
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Researchers reveal global 'hot spots' where new coronaviruses may emerge
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 2 (ANI): Global land-use changes including forest fragmentation, agricultural expansion and concentrated livestock production are creating 'hot spots' favourable for bats that carry coronaviruses and where conditions are ripe for the diseases to jump from bats to humans
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Evidence shows COVID-19 virus could have been created in a Wuhan lab, from
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year and caused over three million deaths and the evidence adds up to a serious case that the virus could have been created in a Chinese lab from which it then escaped, says Nicholas Wa
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Chinese scientists discussed weaponising SARS coronaviruses 5 years befor
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Beijing [China], May 9 (ANI): A document written by Chinese scientists and health officials before the pandemic in 2015 states that SARS coronaviruses were a "new era of genetic weapons" that could be "artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponised and unleash
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Research team locates 24 bat coronaviruses in southwestern China
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 15 (ANI): During the search for the origin of the novel coronavirus, an international team of scientists have found 24 previously unknown bat coronaviruses, with four of them related to the strain that causes COVID-19, within a 4 km radius in southwestern China.
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Mouthwashes, oral rinses may inactivate human coronavirus: Study
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], October 24 (ANI): A recent study conducted at Penn State College of Medicine suggests that certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses.
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Researchers suggest mouthwashes, oral rinses may inactivate human coronavi
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], October 20 (ANI): Certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses, suggested a recent study conducted at Penn State College of Medicine.
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Researchers analyse genomic determinants of coronavirus pathogenicity
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], June 11 (ANI): A recent analysis led by a team of researchers found crucial genomic features that are unique to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and two other deadly coronaviruses, SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV.
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