Durante miles de años el hombre ha estado usando la genética para lograr la mejora de las materias primas y productos alimenticios terminados. Mediante el uso del cruce sexual y la aparición de mutantes espontáneos se ha generado un gran número de…
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) causes a spectrum of illness. We evaluated whether cycle threshold (Ct) values (which are inversely related to virus load) were associated with clinical severity in patients from Saudi Arabia…
With the onset of the global pandemic in 2020 of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), there has been increasing research activity around certain disease-modifying drugs that are used for the management of inflammatory…
The SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) spike is the largest known viral spike molecule, and shares a similar function with all class 1 viral fusion proteins. Previous structural studies of membrane fusion proteins have largely used crystallography of static…
The goal of this study is to determine the incidence, predictors, and outcomes of atrial fibrillation (AF) or atrial flutter (AFL) in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 results in increased inflammatory markers…
The association between smoking status and severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains controversial. To assess the risk of hospitalization (as a marker of severe COVID-19) in patients by smoking status: former, current and never smokers, who…
O feijão-caupi caracteriza-se como uma das principais culturas de subsistência para os pequenos agricultores do Nordeste e Norte. No entanto o rendimento médio dessa cultura é considerado baixo, atribuído a utilização de baixa tecnologia e variedades…
Despite the interruptions and restrictions to the progress of science that the COVID-19 pandemic has introduced, 2020 was marked by a number of important advances in the field of neurotrauma. Here, I will highlight what I believe are among the most…