Tag: SARSCoV2
New pandemic wave? – Eckerle: “Sars-CoV-2 will not become a harmless cold virus” – News
The cases of corona infections are increasing again, and further vaccination is recommended for the risk groups. The Geneva virologist Isabella Eckerle explains the background and connections. Isabella Eckerle Virologist…
GENEURO announces the publication in the journal Translational Psychiatry of a new study showing the link between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the activation of the HERV-W retrovirus in a cohort of hospitalized psychotic patients – 09/11/2023 at 07:30
GeNeuro (Euronext Paris: CH0308403085 – GNRO), biopharmaceutical company developing treatments for neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and severe neuropsychiatric consequences of COVID-19…
Three years after the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the boom in high-security biological laboratories
In 2020, the Global BioLabs initiative, launched by a group of academics, set itself the task of identifying the facilities in which the most dangerous pathogens are studied, responsible for…
Origin of SARS-CoV-2: the treasure hunt continues
The two main hypotheses on the emergence of the virus in China remain hotly debated to this day. Between a natural source, coming from bats, and the accidental escape of…
Revelations on the genesis of a major article on the origin of SARS-CoV-2
Researchers work in a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in central China’s Hubei province in February 2017. SHEPHERD ZHOU/FEATURECHINA/AP Few scientific articles can boast of such an…
A new virus close to SARS-CoV-2 discovered in Chinese bats
Sébastien Le Belzic, edited by Ugo Pascolo 10:29 a.m., December 02, 2022 A Sino-Australian study has discovered new viruses in Chinese bats, five of which are potentially dangerous to humans…
drivers of SARS-CoV-2 evolution
Have we too quickly proclaimed the end of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic? While health policies have changed considerably and the much-decried health past seems to have fallen into oblivion, virologists around…
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2: Is the variant of the variant a new threat?
Omikron is the COVID-19 surprise bag: So far it is not even clear how the variant actually came about, its individual sub-versions are already superimposed in the current wave of…
Tony Estanguet, positive for SARS-CoV-2, will not travel to Beijing
The Paris 2024 delegation, on July 11, 2017, in Lausanne, Switzerland. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT / AP The president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, will not attend the…
how new antivirals fight SARS-CoV-2 infection
By Gary Dagorn Posted today at 2:00 p.m., updated at 3:08 p.m. Reserved for our subscribers DecryptionsAlong with Paxlovid, from Pfizer, authorized on January 21 by the HAS, several types…
Adagio Therapeutics summarizes the neutralizing activity of ADG20 against SARS-CoV-2 variants and describes its initiatives to counter Omicron
Recent publications from several independent laboratories show that ADG20 has a neutralizing activity with a potency comparable to other antibodies and which remains active against Omicron Several initiatives are underway…
Coronaviruses close to SARS-CoV-2 discovered in bats in northern Laos
Are there bats carrying coronaviruses that are direct precursors of SARS-CoV-2? Is it possible to go back to the animal virus that contributed to the emergence of the agent responsible…