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Plastic film protects surfaces against new types of coronavirus on contact
Publicado em 16 outubro 2020
A self-adhesive plastic film to protect surfaces such as doorknobs, handrails, elevator buttons and touchscreens deactivates the novel coronavirus on contact.
The maker of the film is Promaflex. Thanks to technology developed by Nanox, a Brazilian company based in São Paulo and supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation under the FAPESP Program for Innovative Research in Small Business (PIPE), nanoparticles of silver and silica were incorporated into the polyethylene [...]
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Study proves that new coronavirus affects the brain and details its...
Publicado em 15 outubro 2020Brazilian study released yesterday (13) on the platform medRxiv proves that the Sars-CoV-2 virus is able to infect brain tissue cells, with astrocytes as the main target. The results also reveal that even individuals who had the mild form of COVID-19 can present significant changes in the structure of the cortex – the brain region that is richer in neurons and responsible for complex functions such as memory, attention, consciousness and language. The investigation was conducted by [...]ver notícia