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Antibodies found in blood of recovered coronavirus patients could offer a path to treatment
Original article from Boston Herald by Alexi Cohan. March 31, 2020 Labs around the world are seeking blood samples from recovered coronavirus patients in hopes that their antibodies could unlock a path to treatment for current patients struggling with the contagious disease. “People that have been exposed to COVID-19 and have recovered... More
Boston University lab conducting research on live samples of coronavirus
Original article from WCVB. March 25, 2020 A Boston University lab is the only one in New England with a live sample of COVID-19, according to The Boston Globe. The school's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Lab won approval in 2017 to study some of the most infectious specimens. That move caused controversy in... More
BU Lab To Use Live Coronavirus To Test Thousands Of Drugs For Treatment
Original article from CBS Boston by Lisa Gresci. March 25, 2020 A Boston lab that studies some of the most dangerous microbes in the world is now part of the fight against the coronavirus. Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories in the South End have had their hands on... More
Microbiologist testing drugs on live coronavirus sample: ‘I’m very optimistic we can find something’
Original article from Fox News by Yael Halon. March 25, 2020 A Boston University microbiologist who will begin testing potentially life-saving drugs against a live sample of the coronavirus told "Bill Hemmer Reports" Wednesday that he is "extremely optimistic." "We will take drugs that are already out there on the market to test them and see if they... More
Controversial BU Lab is only one in New England with live Coronavirus
Original article from The Boston Globe by Jonathan Saltzman. March 24, 2020 Millions of people are doing everything possible to avoid the COVID-19 virus. Robert Davey couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. When he did last Thursday, the Boston University microbiologist was wearing heavy-duty rubber gloves and an air-tight pressurized... More
Get a Peek inside the Search for COVID-19 Drugs
Original article from Futurity by Boston University. March 23, 2020 Last week, scientists at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus. This type of emergency—a fast-spreading virus outbreak—is precisely what the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), now in its... More
Live Coronavirus Research Gets Underway at BU NEIDL
Original article from The Brink by Kat J. McAlpine. March 19, 2020 Scientists at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), led by microbiologist Robert Davey, this week started suiting up to conduct research on live samples of the novel coronavirus, the first team in Boston to start such work... More
Experts: Here’s what we know about the new coronavirus
Original article from Futurity by Jessica Colarossi. March 12, 2020 As the number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus is climbing around the globe, researchers are racing to learn more about the novel coronavirus and how it spreads. To bring the community up to speed, Boston University infectious disease experts Nahid... More
Talking about the Ebola Outbreak with BU Experts on the Disease
Original article from The Brink by Doug Most. July 18, 2019 When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the yearlong Ebola outbreak in the Congo a global health emergency on Wednesday, one team of BU scientists had a particularly vested interest in that decision: the medical researchers at the University’s National... More
Old Drug, New Tricks
Original article from BU Today by Art Jahnke. November 19, 2018 The inspiration stemmed from observations made during the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic that swept through West Africa, infecting more than 28,000 people and killing more than 11,000 in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone alone. The outbreak attracted the attention of virologists... More