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Apr 26, 2020

Hopes for coronavirus vaccine rise after infected monkeys become immune

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Primates found to have developed antibodies after being infected with Covid-19 – a discovery that suggests the immune system will fight back against the disease.

Apr 26, 2020

Publix is buying excess milk and produce from farmers — and donating it to food banks

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👏🙌💪Farmers around the country have been forced to dump milk and waste fresh produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. In response, Supermarket chain Publix launched a new initiative Wednesday to help struggling farmers — and get the food to Americans who need it most.

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Farmers around the U.S. have been forced to dump milk and destroy produce as schools, restaurants and other institutions remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Apr 26, 2020

South Korea controlled its coronavirus outbreak in just 20 days. Here are the highlights from its 90-page playbook for flattening the curve

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South Korea successfully got its coronavirus outbreak under control in three weeks without enforcing extreme lockdowns. Here’s how.

Apr 26, 2020

How Covid-19 Is Changing Big-Time Astronomy

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Astronomers try to salvage conference meetings and observational astronomy in the midst of this global pandemic.

Apr 26, 2020

How CEOs See Today’s Coronavirus World

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The Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns are altering how businesses operate. Here is how some leaders of the world’s biggest companies described in recent days the changes they are seeing.

Apr 25, 2020

Bill and Melinda Gates stored food in their basement because they knew a pandemic was eventually coming

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“A number of years ago, we talked about, ‘What if there wasn’t clean water? What if there wasn’t enough food? Where might we go? What might we do as a family?’ So, I think we should leave those preparations to ourselves,” Melinda Gates told BBC Radio Live on Thursday.

“We had prepared, and had some food in the basement in case needed, and now we’re all in the same situation,” she said.

Melinda said they could not prepare with a particular drug or vaccine, of course, as “there are no tools” for Covid-19.

Apr 25, 2020

Global coronavirus death toll surpasses 200,000, as world leaders commit to finding vaccine

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The global coronavirus death toll surpassed 200,000 on Saturday, according to John Hopkins University data.

The grim total was reached a day after presidents and prime ministers agreed to work together to develop new vaccines, tests and treatments at a virtual meeting with both the World Health Organization (WHO) and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“We will only halt COVID-19 through solidarity,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Countries, health partners, manufacturers, and the private sector must act together and ensure that the fruits of science and research can benefit everybody.”

Apr 25, 2020

CRISPR Gene Editing May Help Scale Up Coronavirus Testing

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An inexpensive assay based on the technique can provide yes or no answers in under an hour—perhaps even in the home soon.

Apr 25, 2020

Healing the heart

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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center discovered that a protein called calcineurin plays a key role in blocking the ability of heart muscle to regenerate after the first week of life. The finding could be used to develop treatments that reverse this process, offering new strategies for repairing hearts damaged by heart attacks, high blood pressure, viruses and more, they said.

Apr 25, 2020

Neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 spike pseudotyped virus

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, and there are currently no specific antiviral treatments or vaccines available. SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to use the same cell entry receptor as SARS-CoV, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). In this report, we generate a recombinant protein by connecting the extracellular domain of human ACE2 to the Fc region of the human immunoglobulin IgG1. A fusion protein containing an ACE2 mutant with low catalytic activity is also used in this study. The fusion proteins are then characterized. Both fusion proteins have a high binding affinity for the receptor-binding domains of SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 and exhibit desirable pharmacological properties in mice. Moreover, the fusion proteins neutralize virus pseudotyped with SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins in vitro. As these fusion proteins exhibit cross-reactivity against coronaviruses, they have potential applications in the diagnosis, prophylaxis, and treatment of SARS-CoV-2.


SARS-CoV-2 uses ACE2 as the entry receptor. Here, the authors show that an ACE2-Ig fusion…