These cells are still growing robustly and being used routinely. As the world faces the Covid-19 pandemic, HeLa cells are being used in multiple ways to develop diagnostic tests and to understand ...

Regarded from the perspective of expanding the knowledge base, there can be little doubt that the discovery and exploitation ...

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Researchers have discovered a new coronavirus in Chinese bats. HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirusgroup ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus uses the same cell-surface protein to gain entry into human cells as the SARS-CoV-2 virus ...

A newly discovered bat coronavirus could at some point spread to humans like COVID-19, Chinese researchers have found.

Life expectancy plummeted during the pandemic, with COVID-19 deaths, heart disease, and substance abuse playing major roles.

Researchers discovered that when Covid-19 infects a human cell, it sets off a ghoulish transformation. The cell doesn’t die right away. Obeying instructions from the virus, the newly infected ...

New study reveals that leukocyte (white blood cell) count may now be used to identify who is more likely to develop more significant disease symptoms. Ohio: A COVID-19 diagnosis is no longer as ...

It further asserts that Ultragenyx has "made a fortune by using Mrs Lacks's stolen cells as a factory to make its 'proprietary' gene therapy products." The case centres around the use of HeLa ...

Your mitochondria, red blood cells and immune system rely on iron to function ... the first author of a recent paper on the topic. “Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers” ...