Tag: #Coronavirus
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Do viruses make your clock tick wrong?
With the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic happening, let’s delve into one of the many clever strategies that viruses use to successfully infect their host – disruption of the body (circadian) clock. What is a circadian rhythm? Circadian rhythm is a natural cycle that repeats roughly every 24 hours. The circadian rhythm controls the timing of various…
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Artificial intelligence tackling coronavirus
An outbreak of the latest coronavirus strain to cause acute respiratory disease, COVID-19, has shown artificial intelligence (AI) to be a useful tool in multiple areas of the response effort. In 2003 the world saw a life-threatening epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) and in 2012 middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV), which continues to…
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Coronavirus – a breakdown
2019-nCoV, a previously unknown type of coronavirus, emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on December 31. Thousands of cases have been confirmed around China, with a few others scattered internationally. What is 2019-nCoV? Samples taken from patients exhibiting respiratory symptoms revealed a previously unknown virus within the coronavirus species, of the Coronaviridae family.…