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At Penn, researchers are ramping up their efforts to study the coronavirus.
Tulane virologist Robert Garry, PhD, and a team of researchers analyzed the genome sequence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise engineered.
CMU researchers who, upon learning their labs were required to temporarily close in the ongoing effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, sought to donate their PPE to health care workers on the front-lines of the fight against the new coronavirus.
To accommodate and comply with social distancing guidelines and prevent the spread of COVID-19, the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University class of 2020 cancelled its traditional Match Day celebration and replaced it with a Facebook Live Match Day event so its fourth-year students could share and celebrate their residency match assignments in real time
With no drugs or vaccines yet approved for COVID-19 and the number of U.S. cases increasing by the thousands every day, doctors are looking to revive a century-old therapy for infectious diseases: transfusing antibodies from the blood of recovered patients into people who are seriously ill.