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Released: 3-Mar-2020 1:10 PM EST
New Coronavirus Protein Reveals Drug Target
Argonne National Laboratory

A potential drug target has been identified in a newly mapped protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The structure was solved by a team including the University of Chicago (U of C), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine (UCR).

   
Released: 2-Mar-2020 4:20 PM EST
Cast your ballot, not your germs
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Polling locations across the country employ different methods of casting ballots, like using pens, felt-tip markers or touch screens — all hotbeds for germs.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 2:20 PM EST
National airline quality expert comments on potential impact of COVID-19 on air travel
Wichita State University

Dean Headley, co-author of the national Airline Quality Rating from Wichita State University, says public concerns over COVID-19 will mostly negatively affect air travel internationally, but will certainly have some impact on domestic air travel as the virus spreads.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 2:15 PM EST
Study reveals how drug meant for Ebola may also work against coronaviruses
University of Alberta

A group of University of Alberta researchers who have discovered why the drug remdesivir is effective in treating the coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) expect it might also be effective for treating patients infected with the new COVID-19 strain.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 2:05 PM EST
First-ever pathology of the early phase of lung infection with the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

An international team of clinicians and researchers for the first time have described the pathology of the SARS-CoV-2, or coronavirus, and published their findings in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

Released: 2-Mar-2020 1:50 PM EST
New JACEP Open analyses explore coronavirus risk factors and public health concerns
American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)

Emergency physician-led teams are on the frontlines of coronavirus treatment, prevention and response.



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