(T) Not a new news, but it is amazing the see the applications of computer vision for medical applications from heart transplant rejection to lung cancer detection. Probably, many more […]
(E) Covid-19 has certainly pushed to the edge, research on the immune system, and in particular the role of the T cells. Two recent article from the Harvard Medical School […]
(T) An interesting research from Google Health on predicting organ dysfunctions in intensive care units (ICUs). The system uses multi-task models, which take into account a variety of competing risks along […]
(T) An excellent article from Maxime Nauwynck on “how has AI contributed to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic?” published in Stanford Gradient’s blog. The article looks at the contribution in […]
(E) Sanofi, the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world, and its partner GSK just announced the result of their vaccine that is based on an adjuvanted recombinant protein for their […]
(E) There are countries such as New Zealand and Taiwan, where political and health care officials do not tolerate any spread of the SARS-Cov-2 (note that the political leaders in […]
(E) The arts are starting to bloom again in the Bay Area and not only online but also offline: The SF Opera is offering a live performance of the “Barbier […]
(E) A very interesting article on Professor Ron Davis, from the Stanford Genome Technology Center, trying to save his son from the long-term effects of myalgic encephalomyelitis — a disease […]
(E) We have now known for over a year the two companies that delivered the first two Covid-19 vaccines – BioNtech and Moderna, based on mRNA. What we are now […]
(T) In this third blog post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will summarize a recent research study on virus mutation.The recent Covid-19 pandemic […]
(T) In this second post about the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, I will try to describe the state of the art of protein sequencing. Protein […]
(T) In the next three blog posts, I will try to summarize the present state of the art regarding the applications of deep learning techniques to structural biology research, and […]
(E) Moderna released today new data about the protection of its vaccine against the new SARS-Cov-2 variants: “Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Variants Update“. Long story short, the Moderna vaccine provides the […]
(E) Today, Moderna announced the results of its phase 3 study, and gave some additional details about its vaccine. Moderna vaccine is slightly more efficient than the one from BioNTech, […]
(E) Today is a good day! Pharmaceutical giant partner Pfizer announced today that the vaccine developed with its partner BioNTech, a bio-tech company located in Mainz in Germany, against the […]
(E) Looking back at the mistakes that caused human lives, Professor Philippe Parola, directeur de service de soins et d’unité de recherche à L’Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseilles, looked back […]
(E) Excellent research from UCSF, Institut Pasteur, Gladstone Institutes, and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to find the right antiviral drugs for Covid-19: “A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map […]
(E) Yale School of Medicine has updated its initial treatment algorithm for hospitalized patients with non–severe COVID-19 which uses hydroxychloroquine and tocilizumab: Yale Releases COVID-19 Treatment Algorithm Covid-19 adult treatment […]
(E) The Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical has developed a site that tracks all Covid-19 vaccine candidates as they progress through the development pipeline. The […]
(E) A fantastic Q&A about virology with Professor Etienne Simon-Lorière for everyone to listen to. Questions asked were what is a virus, the virus genome, RNA and DNA viruses, the family of coronavirus viruses, what is a cell receptor, how a virus infects the body, how a cell replicates a virus, what is an infection, […]
(E) The latest epidemiological data have revealed that current smoking status appears to be a protective factor against the infection by SARS-CoV-2. A new research paper from the Institut Pasteur […]
(E) Institut Pasteur has today published a detailed analysis “estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France“, and an overview of its analysis in a press release in French “une modélisation […]
(E) There have been many articles recently, such as this one from ScienceMag, that have reported the correlation between the BCG and the propagation of Covid-19: Can a century-old tuberculose […]
(E) Stanford University has created an antiviral research database for the coronavirus. In particular, it includes the ongoing and planned clinical trials of antiviral compounds. Note: The picture above is […]
(E) Another great article from the New York Times that explained the cytokine storm of the immune system in its fight against the SARS-CoV-2: The Coronavirus Patients Betrayed by Their […]
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