(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 […]
(T) A biotech company Adaptive Biotechnologies has developed a new test, called T-Detect Covid, that looks at signals of past Covid infections in the body T cells immune system. The […]
(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 […]
(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) The second wave is here. Infections have been rising to the roof: Europe, the U.S., South America, and Russia. The U.S have now over 150,000 new daily cases, and […]
(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) Taiwan and New Zealand have a huge advantage over other countries fighting the propagation of SARS-CoV-2: they are islands. Closing and reopening offices, schools, restaurants, gyms do not work. […]
(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) I have heard many times Professor William Dally from Stanford University and nVIDIA’s Chief Scientist talking about training deep learning systems on GPUs. During the shelter, Professor Dally led […]
(E) Latest analyses from Professor Didier Raoult and the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) de Marseille, who conducted early successful tests with the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment to Covid-19, on […]
(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) Many have challenged the preliminary results from a study, COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, published by Stanford University last Friday. That study indicated that the number of […]
(E) An excellent Twitter thread from Professor Carl Bergstrom, from the University of Washington, on explaining the impact of overshoot when trying to achieve herd immunity. Long story short: “with […]
(E) Germany, Taiwan, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Danemark have all women leaders. And, all those countries had the most adequate response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as analyzed in a Forbes magazine article. Note: The picture above is the picture of Angela Merkel from Wikipedia (By Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia […]
(E) Several hypotheses discussed by Professors Akiko Iwasaki and Nathan Grubaugh from the Yale School of Medicine and Yale School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology about why japan has […]
(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 […]
