Scientists at Berkeley Lab and Stanford have joined forces to aim a gene-targeting, antiviral agent called PAC-MAN against COVID-19.
Tag: Pandemic Flu
Historian compares COVID-19 with past pandemics
George Dehner, associate professor of history at Wichita State University, might take exception to those who say the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented.
COVID-19 big picture: For many years, Pinar Keskinocak has studied how society and the nation handle pandemics.
For many years, Pinar Keskinocak has studied how pandemics spread through the nation, how they overburden health care systems, and how they diminish the supply of medications, thus worsening the pandemic. All this also spins off additional medical crises. She…
New pathogenic mechanism for influenza NS1 protein found
Researchers report the biological effects of influenza protein NS1 binding to RIG-I — the binding directly quiets the alarm that activates the cellular innate immunity defense against the infection. This is a newly described way for flu to antagonize the host cellular antiviral response.