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Researchers from USP (University of São Paulo) confirmed that the new coronavirus is capable of infecting and replicating in saliva, hence the high capacity for infection. The discovery was made in analyzes of samples of three types of salivary glands, obtained during autopsy in patients who died as a result of complications from Covid-19 at the Hospital das Clínicas of the Faculty of Medicine of USP. They found that these tissues specialized in saliva production and secretion [...]

The Brazilian variant of the new coronavirus – known as P.1. or variant of Manaus – probably emerged in the Amazon capital in mid-November 2020, about a month before the number of hospitalizations for severe acute respiratory syndrome in the city made a leap. In just seven weeks, P.1. has become the most prevalent strain of SARS-CoV-2 in the region, report researchers from the Brazil-UK Center for Discovery, Diagnosis, Genomics and Epidemiology of Arbovirus (CADDE) in an article [...]

Rio de Janeiro, Nov 13 (IANS) Stress while driving is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and sudden cardiac complications such as heart attack, but now researchers have found that listening to music while driving can reduce cardiac stress. “We found that cardiac stress in the participants in our experiment was reduced by listening to music while they were driving,” said study lead author Vitor Engracia Valenti, Professor at Sao Paulo State University in [...]

London: It has been discovered by an international team of researchers that a novel compound can stop the growth of parasites Plasmodium falciparum known as malaria – the mosquito-dead disease that kills nearly 500,000 people every year in the world. The study, published in the journal Science, noted that the compound called TCMDC-135051 can be developed by the multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline to eliminate the parasite carried with mosquito in all stages of its life [...]

Researchers in the College of Sao Paolo in South america took part in the research, that was funded through the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the nation’s Institutes of Health, Zika Network FAPESP of Sao Paolo, UCSD Tooth Fairy Project and also the A.P. Giannini First step toward Bay Area. The brand new findings from UC North Park scientists and colleagues in South america, were printed in the web based edition of Human Molecular Genetics. The Zika virus is transmitted [...]