Researchers in Brazil have designed, synthesized and tested a new uracil-derived small molecule that shows measurable ...
When a virus slips into a human cell, the first hours of infection decide much of what follows. The cell’s pattern ...
Researchers at the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) in Brazil have discovered that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a sophisticated tactic to evade the human body's defense ...
In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute has identified a potential new drug against the virus ...
In the sickest COVID-19 patients, the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn't just cause severe damage by directly infecting airway cells.
The study, published in ‘Cell Reports’, examined how RNA viruses interact with a protein named alpha-synuclein, that forms ...
Infections caused by certain viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, are likely to cause neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease, a new study by scien ...
Researchers have found that galloylquinic acids extracted from the leaves of Copaifera lucens Dwyer, a tree native to Brazil and found mainly in the Atlantic Forest, can act against SARS-CoV-2 in ...
A new study by scientists at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad has revealed how viral ...