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Scientists develop new mechanism to inactivate COVID-19 virus, block entry
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Scientists of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in collaboration with researchers from the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology developed a novel mechanism to inactivate COVID (SARS-CoV-2) virus by blocking their entry to cells and reducing infection
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Keep a constant check on Covid-19, virus is mutating: Expert
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 12 (ANI): The Covid surge has raised concerns as the coronavirus is "constantly mutating" and we cannot let the infection run "unchecked", Co-chairman of National Indian Medical Association Covid-19 task force Dr Rajeev Jayadevan.
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Research reveals immune system uses two-step verification to defend agains
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
San Diego (California) [US], July 11 (ANI): Human immunodeficiency virus 1, or HIV-1, is well-known for its amazing ability to elude the immune system. Scripps Research scientists and associates have discovered how our innate immune system detects HIV-1 even when it is present in trace amoun
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Study finds universal influenza B vaccine that induces broad and lasting p
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Atlanta [US], July 9 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers at Georgia State University's Institute of Biomedical Sciences, a new universal flu vaccine has been found to protect against influenza B viruses that offer broad defenses against different strains and improve immune protect
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Detailed views of HIV protein may lead to novel treatments against virus
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 7 (ANI): Scientists have determined the molecular structure of HIV Pol, a protein that plays a key role in the late stages of HIV replication, or the process through which the virus propagates itself and spreads through the body.
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ICMR-VCRC develops special mosquitoes to control Dengue, Chikungunya
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Puducherry [India], July 7 (ANI): In order to control Dengue and Chikungunya, ICMR-Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC) developed special female mosquitoes that will mate with males and produce larvae that do not carry these viruses.
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COVID-19 vaccine activates antibodies that target parts of the virus: Stud
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 5 (ANI): Considering the speculation about whether the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine can reawaken previous antibody responses and pave the way to a universal coronavirus vaccine, new research on a COVID-19 vaccine's antibody response suggests that the immune system's history with
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Research proposes a new live-attenuated influenza A vaccine approach to de
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 4 (ANI): A research team led by Prof. SI Longlong from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a new live-attenuated influenza vaccine approach -- generating proteolysis-targeting chimeric (PROTAC) influenza A
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Oral sex can cause throat cancer? Here's what you need to know
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): A bizarre yet groundbreaking development has now been found in the research for throat cancer. The main risk factors for developing throat cancer had majorly been smoking and alcohol. But research in recent years has established that throat cancer has a cl
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Hong Kong to distribute 290,000 RAT kits following COVID-19 detection in s
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 3 (ANI): Hong Kong on Sunday said that it will distribute around 290,000 sets of COVID-19 rapid antigen test (RAT) kits as part of a follow-up on the recent detection of the COVID-19 virus in sewage samples.
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Study shows development of rapid COVID-19 test by UTSW researchers that ca
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects eight hotspot signatures in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now that CoVarScan has been tested on more than 4,000 patient samples collected at UT Southwes
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Two COVID-19 cases detected in Wuhan, days after Xi stresses on 'zero-Covi
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Beijing [China], July 2 (ANI): Two new cases of Covid-19 were recently found in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged, though Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasised on the zero-COVID policy during his visit to the city last week.
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