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Special Report: FDA’s lax rules on coronavirus blood tests open U.S. market to dubious vendors

(Reuters) - As the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the United States, Joe Shia, a consultant to Chinese medical companies, said he was bombarded with...

More than half of states will be partly open by end of the week

Governors across the country have been announcing whether they will begin phased reopenings of their states when many of their order expire this...

Data on Gilead drug raises hopes in pandemic fight, Fauci calls it ‘highly significant’

(Reuters) - The top U.S. infectious disease official said Gilead Sciences Inc’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir will become the standard of care for...

Gilead says experimental drug helps COVID-19 patients, raising hopes in pandemic fight

(Reuters) - A top U.S. health official said Gilead Sciences Inc’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir is likely to become the standard of care...

Coronavirus antibody tests have ‘really terrible’ accuracy, researcher says

A false positive means someone would be told they'd already had coronavirus when they had not -- a potential danger as people could...

New York governor says first phase of reopening could begin after May 15 in some areas

Preliminary results from clinical trials of an experimental antiviral drug for coronavirus could come in a week, a top researcher said Sunday.Final test...

Coronavirus cases in US approach 1 million

Preliminary results from clinical trials of an experimental antiviral drug for coronavirus could come in a week, a top researcher said Sunday.Final test...

Alzheimer’s trial screening data links high amyloid levels with early stage disease

The first published data from the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) study supports the hypothesis that higher levels of the amyloid...

Newly discovered enzyme “square dance” helps generate DNA building blocks

How do you capture a cellular process that transpires in the blink of an eye? Biochemists at MIT have devised...

MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19

As the world grapples with the public health crises and myriad disruptions brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, many efforts...

A stopgap measure to treat respiratory distress

Researchers at MIT and the University of Colorado at Denver have proposed a stopgap measure that they believe could help...

Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

MIT biological engineers have created a multitissue model that lets them study the relationships between different organs and the immune...

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