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Researchers Clone SARS-CoV2 in One Week 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- May 5, 2020
Cloning the novel SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) in the laboratory is now more rapid and efficient. A team of researchers from Bern, Switzerland, created a synthetic platform that produced SARS-CoV-2 copies in only one week. The results were published yesterday, as an unedited manuscript, in the scientific journal Nature. The new replication model was made using TAR
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Are Viruses Alive?0
- Health & Medicine
- April 30, 2020
Now that we are all tuned into virus talk, it may be a good idea to shed new light on an old debate. Arguments about whether viruses are alive have gone on for years. Expert opinion remains divided roughly a third each between yes, no and don’t know (surveys conducted by Vincent Racaniello on Virology
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Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 Does Not Occur in Rhesus Monkeys 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- March 16, 2020
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has caused more than 170,000 cases of infection worldwide, and its death toll continues to rise. Meanwhile, almost half of the infected patients have been discharged from the hospitals and are considered recovered. However, a small fraction of the discharged individuals has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2, prompting
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Coronavirus Update: 100,000 Infected, More Than Half Recovered 0
- Covid-19, Flash News
- March 6, 2020
Situation report 100,686 infections (80,573 Mainland China; 6,593 South Korea; 4,747 Iran; 3,858 Italy) 55,753 recoveries 3,411 deaths Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (Real-time data; retrieved March 6, 2020, 17:30 WET) Updates from the daily media briefing from WHO – All countries should make containment of the virus
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Thai Doctors Use Anti-HIV and Anti-flu Drugs to Treat Patients with Coronavirus Infection 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- February 5, 2020
Thai doctors are using a combination of anti-flu and anti-HIV drugs to treat patients infected with coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
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Novel Coronavirus (nCoV): Updates (24 January 2020)0
- Covid-19, Flash News, Health & Medicine
- January 24, 2020
Infections and death toll More than 800 cases of infection have been confirmed so far. Most of the patients have had some contact with a seafood market in the city of Wuhan, China. Infections have also been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, the United States of America and the Republic of Korea. Twenty-six people have died, two
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