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The First Record of a SARS-CoV2 Infection Dates to One Year Ago Today0
A 55-year-old resident of Hubei, China, may have been the first registered case of the novel coronavirus infection. The record dates to one year ago today, on the 17th of November 2019, according to Chinese official data revealed by The South China Morning Post. But the search for “patient zero” is far from over. Without
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Infection with Sars-CoV-2 Renders a Robust Antibody Response for at least Three Months0
- Health & Medicine
- October 30, 2020
Antibodies are one of the most valuable tools of the immune system to fight foreign invaders. As expected from work with other coronaviruses, several studies have confirmed that, following infection with Sars-CoV-2, the immune system counteracts by producing antibodies against the spike protein, a molecule that the virus uses to dock itself to our cells
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Covid-19 Candidate Vaccines Pass Safety and Efficacy Tests0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- July 23, 2020
Two candidate vaccines (ChAdOx1 and Ad-5-nCoV) for Covid-19 have been shown to be safe and efficacious in humans, according to two studies published this week in The Lancet journal. Both vaccines are based on adenovirus vectors, DNA viruses that act as vehicles to carry SARS-CoV-2 proteins to the body, therefore eliciting a response against an
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Asymptomatic Patients Appear to Have Lung Damage and Low Antibody Levels after SARS-CoV-2 Infection0
- Covid-19
- June 25, 2020
The levels of antibody protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection may not last longer than a few months, reveals an article published last week on Nature Medicine. Of 37 people with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2 but with no clinical symptoms of the disease, 81% tested positive for IgG, an antibody produced 3 to 4 weeks after
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Study Reveals Geographic Differences in the SARS-CoV-2 Genomes0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- March 24, 2020
Bioinformatic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reveals several variations between the genomes of SARS-CoV-2 from Italy, India, Nepal and USA, and the SARS-CoV-2 originated from Wuhan. Researchers used a database of genomes, genes and proteins from SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, and compared them with the SARS-CoV, the virus that originated an outbreak of
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A Mouth Full of Teeth
- Health & Medicine, Popular
- October 4, 2012
Toasters From the 1920s
- Design & Technology
- May 29, 2013
Why You Always Empty Your Beer That Fast
- Mind & Brain, Popular
- September 3, 2012
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