INHIBITION OF CORONAVIRUS ENTRY IN VITRO AND EX VIVO BY A LIPID-CONJUGATED PEPTIDE DERIVED FROM THE SARS-COV-2 SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN HRC DOMAIN

Inhibition of Coronavirus Entry In Vitro and Ex Vivo by a Lipid-Conjugated Peptide Derived from the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Glycoprotein HRC Domain

ABSTRACT The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the etiological agent of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), has erupted into a global pandemic that has led to tens of millions of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide.The development of therapeutics to treat infection or as prophy

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Delaying Annihilation: Mountains and the Postponement of Massacre

This paper aims at conceptualizing the physical lycogel environment of genocidal violence.Perpetrator organizations are understood to use artificial and natural settings to facilitate the task of mass killing.It is argued that mountains may be relatively distinct from other features of terrain because they offer advantages that strategically favor

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Serological Testing Reveals the Hidden COVID-19 Burden among Health Care Workers Experiencing a SARS-CoV-2 Nosocomial Outbreak

ABSTRACT We describe the results of testing health care workers, from a tertiary care hospital in Japan that had experienced a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak during the first peak of the pandemic, for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific antibody seroconversion.Using two chemiluminescent immunoassays a

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