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The exclusion of pregnant patients in initial COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials left many patients and doctors wondering how the vaccine might affect pregnant patients and their unborn babies. But a new Northwestern Medicine study finds the vaccine is not associated with birth defects that are…
University Research | Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityAn interdisciplinary team at Northwestern to assess how public thinks, feels and behaves during global pandemic
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern Medicine has enrolled its first participants in a new international clinical drug trial for COVID-19.
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityResearchers are ramping up production of a promising drug that has proven effective in obliterating SARS-CoV in cellular cultures. The team hopes that the drug might also be effective in the fight against SARS’s close genetic cousin, the novel coronavirus.
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityResearchers are developing new peptide-based therapeutics for targeting and disabling the coronavirus’ so-called “spike proteins.”
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityA potential drug target has been identified in a newly mapped protein of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The structure was solved by a team including the University of Chicago (U of C), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory,…
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern University | The University of ChicagoA new study published in The Lancet, however, has found no evidence that COVID-19 is passed from women in their third trimester to their unborn fetus in the womb, a mechanism known as vertical transmission, based on examination of medical records and tissue samples from nine pregnant patients who…
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityA Northwestern University researcher has received funding to develop a new self-sanitizing medical face mask that deactivates viruses on contact.
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern University researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. The AI-powered tool makes it possible to prioritize resources for the most promising studies — and ignore research that is unlikely to yield benefits.
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern UniversityResearchers at Northwestern have developed a novel wearable device to catch early signs and symptoms associated with COVID-19
Confronting COVID-19 | Northwestern University