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[ad_1] Rome, May 3 (IANS): As the national shutdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic is drawing to a close, Italy saw a decline in new infections on Saturday, according to the latest numbers released by the Department of Civil Protection. The number of new infections was 1,900 in the past …

[ad_1] ANI | Updated: May 02, 2020 9:19 PM IST Washington DC. [USA], May 2 (ANI): After conducting research on melanoma, a group of scientists has more than doubled the known number of regions that influence the risk of developing melanoma. The research, co-chaired by QIMR Berghofer, the University of …

[ad_1] Image Source: AP Proceedings India’s leading research and development organization, the Scientific and Industrial Research Council (CSIR), which is currently testing a “reused” vaccine against Covid-19 in a Phase 2 trial, hopes to obtain approval from the drug controller for wider use. Against the pandemic in just 30 days …

[ad_1] The coronavirus appears to stay longer in certain public spaces. While New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said he could extend the blockade to certain parts of the state beyond May 15, more than 30 states are preparing to reopen their economies. Businesses, including gyms and lounges, are reopening in …

[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram, May 2 The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) praised Kerala’s containment strategy and strong public health system on Saturday and said it “will continue to refer to the Kerala model” for containment testing and strategies. Dr. Raman R Gangakhedkar, chief of Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases at ICMR, …

[ad_1] The story so far: On April 23, the University of Oxford launched a phase 1 human clinical trial of its vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, against the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. A single dose of the candidate vaccine will be administered to 1,112 healthy volunteers to study the safety, the ability to …

[ad_1] The Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine to prevent tuberculosis should be administered to healthcare workers and the elderly as prophylaxis (preventive action) for coronavirus disease (Covid-19), according to an article published in the Indian Journal of Orthopedics. “The BCG vaccine is known to confer broad-spectrum immunity not only against tuberculosis …

[ad_1] One son has successfully cured his coronavirus-affected father to regain health at home despite the 81-year-old patient being discharged from the hospital to die. Raj Nathwani used a Google spreadsheet to monitor Suri’s vital signs, kept his house clean, and isolated him from the rest of the family in …

[ad_1] Credit: Jason McLellan / University of Texas at Austin (spike); H. Tabermann / HZB (protease); Science (polymerase) Structures of SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein (left), main protease (middle), and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (right) have all been solved rapidly by structural biologists around the world. When the government in Wuhan, China, confirmed …

[ad_1] Peter Salk still remembers the unease he felt when his father came home from work one day in May 1953 and quickly started boiling a set of needles and syringes on the kitchen stove. With several years of research and promising results in monkeys feeding high hopes, Dr. Jonas …