Israeli scientists might save the world from death-dealing pancreatic cancer
Scientists at Tel Aviv University have been able to eradicate pancreatic cancer from a mouse using a molecule known as PJ34. The mouse was infected with human pancreatic cancer and the molecule was able to kill 90% of the cancer cells. Pancreatic cancer at present, is one of the most adamant cancer of all.
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Coronavirus vaccine begins pre-clinical trials in Australia
Australia's national science agency has begun pre-clinical trials to find a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus. This stage will likely take three months and experts say the vaccine will probably not be ready until late next year. Although the process is going much faster than usual, it is unlikely that the vaccine will be available this year.
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Malaria medication could be a cure for coronavirus, research finds
Researchers led by infectious disease expert Didier Raoult have found that the drug hydroxychloroquine, used in the treatment of malaria, could potentially be a cure for the novel coronavirus, with a lab experiment involving 26 patients revealing more than 50 percent of coronavirus-positive patients tested negative for COVID-19 after a week of treatment with hydroxychloroquine.
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Antiviral drugs fail to cure coronavirus, study shows
According to one of the first studies on patients seriously ill with the coronavirus, standard anti-viral drugs cannot cure or even treat the coronavirus. The study was carried out in China and the researchers claim that a lot more research is required to have any kind of consensus on the effectiveness of existing medicine.
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COVID-19 can survive on surfaces for days, hours in the air
A new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which forms part of the US National Institutes of Health, has discovered that the extremely contagious novel coronavirus COVID-19 can survive in the air and remain infectious for up to three hours, on cardboard surfaces for no more than 24 hours, on copper for 4 hours, and on stainless steel surfaces for about 6 hours.
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