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Rensselaer team receives NIAID grant to develop antiviral drug for Covid-19

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grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for developing a Covid-19 oral antiviral drug. The team’s work will be based on the prior research of Structural Bioinformatics Constellation Endowed chair Dr Montelione. Meanwhile, the NIH also granted a $2.7m

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New clues to how SARS-CoV-2 infects cells

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Researchers at Uppsala University have tested the bioinformatic predictions made by another research group and have identified receptors that could be important players in the process. The molecular details of how SARS-CoV-2 enters cells and infects them are still not clear.

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Improving European healthcare through cell-based interceptive medicine

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Credit: Felix Petermann, MDC Hundreds of innovators, research pioneers, clinicians, industry leaders and policy makers from all around Europe are united by a vision of how to revolutionize healthcare.

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First actionable clock that predicts immunological health and chronic diseases of aging

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Research highlights the critical role of the immune system in the aging process Researchers from the Buck Institute and Stanford University have created an inflammatory clock of aging (iAge) which measures inflammatory load and predicts multi-morbidity, frailty, immune health, cardiovascular aging and is also associated with exceptional longevity in (..)

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‘Good bacteria’ in breast milk changes over time

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Scientists discover complex and dynamic bacterial ecosystem in human breast milk using genomic technology pioneered for the International Space Station Credit: Emmanuel Gonzalez et al.

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Foresight diagnostics to show vision of the new standard of lymphoma MRD detection at ICML

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AURORA, COLORADO, June 16, 2021 — Foresight Diagnostics, the emerging leader in blood-based lymphoma disease monitoring, announced today that clinical performance of its minimal residual disease (MRD) detection platform in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) will be presented at the 16th International Conference on Malignant Lymphoma (ICML) (..)

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Unravelling the mystery that makes viruses infectious

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Credit: University of Leeds Researchers have for the first time identified the way viruses like the poliovirus and the common cold virus ‘package up’ their genetic code, allowing them to infect cells.