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All you need to know about the new Coronavirus strain
Just when our hopes about the vaccine for COVID19 were becoming a reality, the UK government announced the discovery of a highly contagious new...
Lymphoma drug outperforms Remdesivir against Covid virus
A chemotherapy medication originally developed to treat lymphoma has outperformed the popular remdesivir drug against SARS-CoV-2 in lab settings, and could potentially be repurposed...
New research explains severe virus attacks on lungs
A team of Swedish researchers has revealed how different kinds of immune cells, called macrophages, develop in the lungs, and which of them may...
2 cases of mutant virus detected in Telugu states
Health authorities in the Telugu states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh went on alert on Tuesday after two cases of a mutant variant of...
6 UK returnees’ samples carry mutant Covid-19 variant
The samples of six UK returnees in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune have been found to be positive with the new variant genome, the central...
TB vax linked to lower risk of contracting Covid-19
New research adds to a growing body of evidence that Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB), is associated with a reduced possibility...
Study reveals how smoking worsens Covid infection airways
Researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human stem cells have pinpointed how smoking cigarettes causes more severe infection by SARS-CoV-2, the...
Humans can transmit Covid-19 virus to wildlife: Study
In a major study, researchers have found that there's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, to wildlife.
The study, published...