The Coronavirus pandemic–2022: Viruses, variants & vaccines

M Alexandridi, J Mazej, E Palermo, J Hiscott - Cytokine & growth factor …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019–2020, Cytokine & Growth Factor
Reviews has published several Special Issues focused on the biology, pathogenesis and …

Replicating viral vector-based vaccines for COVID-19: potential avenue in vaccination arena

VP Chavda, R Bezbaruah, M Athalye, PK Parikh… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The “severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)” is the third member of
human coronavirus (CoV) that is held accountable for the current “coronavirus disease 2019 …

Thematic analysis as a new culturomic tool: the social media coverage on COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

M Aria, C Cuccurullo, L D'Aniello, M Misuraca… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic influenced people's everyday lives because of the health
emergency and the resulting socio-economic crisis. People use social media to share …

Heterogeneous infectivity and pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 variants beta, delta and omicron in transgenic K18-hACE2 and wildtype mice

F Tarrés-Freixas, B Trinité, A Pons-Grífols… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs) may display enhanced
transmissibility, more severity and/or immune evasion; however, the pathogenesis of these …

Data science approaches to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic: a narrative review

Q Zhang, J Gao, JT Wu, Z Cao… - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, more than ever, data science has become a powerful
weapon in combating an infectious disease epidemic and arguably any future infectious …

[HTML][HTML] Should we discount the laboratory origin of COVID-19?

R Segreto, Y Deigin, K McCairn, A Sousa… - Environmental chemistry …, 2021 - Springer
There is a near-consensus view that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-
CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19, has a natural zoonotic origin; however, several …

Advances in synthetic biology and biosafety governance

J Li, H Zhao, L Zheng, W An - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Tremendous advances in the field of synthetic biology have been witnessed in multiple
areas including life sciences, industrial development, and environmental bio-remediation …

Host-specific asymmetric accumulation of mutation types reveals that the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is consistent with a natural process

KJ Shan, C Wei, Y Wang, Q Huan, W Qian - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
The capacity of RNA viruses to adapt to new hosts and rapidly escape the host immune
system is largely attributable to de novo genetic diversity that emerges through mutations in …

DTSEA: a network-based drug target set enrichment analysis method for drug repurposing against COVID-19

Y Su, J Wu, X Li, J Li, X Zhao, B Pan, J Huang… - Computers in Biology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is still wreaking havoc
worldwide. Therefore, the urgent need for efficient treatments pushes researchers and …

People's understanding of the concept of misinformation

M Osman, Z Adams, B Meder… - Journal of Risk …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In the main, work has focused on defining and conceptualising the term misinformation, why
and how people share misinformation, as well as the consequences for individual behaviour …