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A team of Swiss researchers have created a transparent surgical face mask, intended for essential workers, that no longer hide people's faces.
Medical

By Victor Tangermann

New research shows that, without lockdowns, the U.S. would have likely had nearly 5 million more cases of the coronavirus by early April.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Several employees were instructed to stay at home after testing positive for the coronavirus after Tesla defied lockdown orders in California.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Claims that rubber bullets are nonlethal or less lethal than other forms of ammunition don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Health officials have raised concerns about whether the ongoing protests could trigger a second wave of coronavirus cases. Some are downplaying the risks.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is actually a genetic hybrid of a bat and pangolin virus that happened to swap genes.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working hard to develop cost-efficient UVC light lamps that could be used to sanitize anything from hospital rooms to subway car interiors.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple scientists have found that greater humidity seems to block the coronavirus from spreading, but experts warn against complacency if cases drop.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The first human trials for a COVID-19 antibody treatment are beginning. If it works, it could be available by the end of the year.
Treatments

By Dan Robitzski

In order to track local outbreaks of the coronavirus, scientists are analyzing samples from sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Regularly hitting a vape can mess up your mouth's microbiome so much that harmful bacteria start producing a layer of slime.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A new system allows the interior cabin of Ford Police Interceptor Utility vehicles to literally bake at sweltering temperatures to neutralize any infected surfaces
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study involving 96,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was linked to an increased risk of mortality.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.
Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of biostatistical models predicting the future U.S. coronavirus death toll agree: there will likely be 110,000 fatalities by June 6.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical device that looks and spins like a fidget spinner can test for and diagnose a urinary tract infection in under an hour.
Medical

By Dan Robitzski

This startup is selling a gigantic air-filtration helmet that it says will filter out the COVID-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus. Does it work?
Viruses

By Jon Christian

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

"This virus may become just another endemic virus in our communities, and this virus may never go away," WHO emergencies expert Mike Ryan said on Thursday.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report by The Wall Street Journal, Chinese and Iranian hackers are targeting US efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A resurgence of coronavirus cases is starting to hit China, South Korea and Germany — just as governments are starting to loosen restrictions.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.
RX and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

In a new report, scientists discussed how to ensure that space travelers don't contaminate distant planets — and that they won't bring back pollutants.
Pathogens

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.
Treatments

By Dan Robitzski

Recent earning reports from companies like Lyft, Uber, and Airbnb show that the coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating effect on the sharing economy.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, antibodies found in the blood of llamas were able to stave off coronavirus infections.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Health Department official Rick Bright filed a whistleblower complaint about officials in the Trump administration ignoring warnings about the pandemic.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new report, researchers outline a new dominant strain of coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than the previously dominating one.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Staff at the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo have been noticing that their roughly 300 tiny garden eels have been burying themselves in sand more often.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese intelligence warned the country's leadership that its response to the coronavirus pandemic created a massive wave of global anti-China sentiment.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey led by researchers from a number of US universities found that the majority of Americans want to continue physical distancing measures.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA just approved its first treatment for COVID-19: an experimental antiviral drug called remdesivir that showed promise in preliminary research.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers at the University of East Anglia, England have found links between low levels of vitamin D and COVID-19 mortality rates across Europe.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon Buys Thermal Cameras to Scan Workers For Fevers
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced on Wednesday that all city and county residents can get a free COVID-19 test, with our without symptoms.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

White House health advisor Anthony Fauci said yesterday that early drug trial testing of antiviral drug remdesivir showed "quite good news."
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

As various teams race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus, one group at Oxford University says that, under the right conditions, theirs could be available as soon as September.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists have found new evidence that the coronavirus could be able to spread through the air after finding genetic material in airborne droplets.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Hong Kong researchers developed a protective coating that they say can kill the coronavirus on treated surfaces for up to three months.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis found that from March to April 4, the number of total deaths in the US far exceeded the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

An administrator for an anti-quarantine Facebook group in North Carolina, local native Audrey Whitlock, confirmed she tested positive for COVID-19.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

This Virus-Proof Suit Lets You Vape, Have Sex
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese officials announced that there are no longer any patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, but they're concerned about a second outbreak.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

The United States has ditched a global initiative led by the World Health Organization to accelerate cooperation on a coronavirus vaccine.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

A team of NASA researchers have developed a ventilator for treating COVID-19 patients in just 37 days and is requesting the FDA for fast-tracked approval.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Trump is suggesting more unproven and likely deadly ways to fight the coronavirus. This time, it's injecting patients with disinfectant.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are pleading with states that allow capital punishment to release their stores of lethal injection drugs, which could also help COVID-19 patients.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

"COVID toes," mysterious blue or red discoloration in toes and sometimes fingers, could be another early symptom of the coronavirus.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

The prognosis of a COVID-19 patient being hooked up to a ventilator is grim: a NY study showed that 88 percent of those placed on ventilators died.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to a major Paris hospital study, tobacco could be saving smokers from catching COVID-19. Researchers suggest it could be the nicotine.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

It's easy to forget about the vape lung crisis, given the current pandemic. But an otolaryngologist drew comparisons between the two and issued a warning.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

ccording to a new study, researchers were able to detect the presence of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in wastewater in Australia.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

Research suggests that the coronavirus could have mutated into 30+ different strains, which could explain why some outbreaks are deadlier than others.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

More evidence that the anti-malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine is proving to be a pretty terrible way to treat COVID-19.
Viruses

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new poll, most Americans across the political spectrum disagree with the anti-quarantine protesters who have been making headlines lately.
Viruses

By Dan Robitzski