Authors: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause significant illness and death while treatment options remain limited. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have discovered a […]
Accumulating evidence suggests anti-TNF therapy needs to be given trial priority in COVID-19 treatment
Authors: Philip C Robinson, Duncan Richards, Helen L Tanner, Marc Feldmann The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on global health-care systems and to claim an increasing number of lives. […]
TNF Biologics and COVID-19: What Autoimmune Patients Need to Know
Authors: If you’re taking a type of medication known as tumor necrosis factor inhibitors, also called anti-TNF or TNFis, you may be wondering how these drugs could impact your chances […]
Pathways in the Pathophysiology of Coronavirus 19 Lung Disease Accessible to Prevention and Treatment
Authors: Michael Eisenhut 1, Jae Il Shin 2 Background: In COVID 19 related lung disease, which is a leading cause of death from this disease, cytokines like tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha) may be […]
Integrative clinical, genomics and metabolomics data analysis for mainstream precision medicine to investigate COVID-19
Authors: Zeeshan Ahmed, Saman Zeeshan, David J Foran, Lawrence C Kleinman, Fredric E Wondisford, XinQi Dong Crrespondence to Dr Zeeshan Ahmed, Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, […]
8 tools that helped us tackle the coronavirus
Authors: Ryan Cross , Laura Howes , Megha Satyanarayana ADENOVIRAL VECTORS Viruses might be nature’s most efficient gene-delivery vehicles. At its essence, a virus is simply a package that shuttles genes into a host cell, which […]
Genomics study identifies routes of transmission of coronavirus in care homes
Authors: Craig Brierley, University of Cambridge Genomic surveillance—using information about genetic differences between virus samples—can help identify how SARS-CoV-2 spreads in care home settings, whose residents are at particular risk, according […]
How genomic epidemiology is tracking the spread of COVID-19 locally and globally
Auhors: Claire Jarvis, special to C&EN n early April, a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) raised the eyebrows […]
A comprehensive map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome
Authors: Anne Trafton | MIT News Office In early 2020, a few months after the Covid-19 pandemic began, scientists were able to sequence the full genome of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […]
Genomics Data Lake
The Genomics Data Lake provides various public datasets that you can access for free and integrate into your genomics analysis workflows and applications. The datasets include genome sequences, variant info, […]