An anti-parasitic drug could be the COVID-19 antiviral we need
Researchers from Australia have confirmed that an FDA-approved anti-parasitic agent called Ivermectin can inhibit SARS-Cov2 replication in…
Category: How do we treat infectious diseases?
Infectious diseases affect all living things. What’s the status of antibiotics research? What else can we do to treat and prevent infections, outbreaks epidemics, and pandemics?
How scientists saw the coronavirus in living lung tissue
Scientists recently discovered key information about SARS-CoV-2 that could improve the medical treatment of patients with severe pneumonia.…
An estimated 17% of COVID-19 cases show no symptoms
Questions surrounding the nature of asymptomatic cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been present since near the beginning of…
Do hand sanitizers work on the coronavirus?
Do commercial hand sanitizers work on coronavirus? In the lab, yes. Studies are needed using real human hands, which come with ethical…
Small animals that carry disease adapt well to our activities
A study suggests that small mammals like rodents have adapted to thrive on human-influenced land. They also happen to carry a lot of human…
Deliberately infecting volunteers with COVID-19 to speed up vaccine development?
A potential way to speed up vaccine development: human challenge trials. #covid19 #research
Laboratory methods behind the polio vaccine discovery
Poliomyelitis is the name of the disease caused by the poliovirus, and it mostly affects children under the age of 5, causing paralysis in a…
What beached whales can teach us about antibiotic resistance
Researchers found that more than half of the bacteria collected from stranded cetaceans in the Philippines showed antimicrobial resistance…