SARS-CoV-2 D614G variant exhibits efficient replication ex vivo and transmission in vivo

YJ Hou, S Chiba, P Halfmann, C Ehre, M Kuroda… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The spike aspartic acid–614 to glycine (D614G) substitution is prevalent in global severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strains, but its effects on viral …

COVID-19 transmission, current treatment, and future therapeutic strategies

VS Salian, JA Wright, PT Vedell, S Nair… - Molecular …, 2021 - ACS Publications
At the stroke of the New Year 2020, COVID-19, a zoonotic disease that would turn into a
global pandemic, was identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Although unique in its …

Immunity, endothelial injury and complement-induced coagulopathy in COVID-19

L Perico, A Benigni, F Casiraghi, LFP Ng… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
In December 2019, a novel coronavirus was isolated from the respiratory epithelium of
patients with unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan, China. This pathogen, named severe acute …

[HTML][HTML] Signatures of plasticity, metastasis, and immunosuppression in an atlas of human small cell lung cancer

JM Chan, A Quintanal-Villalonga, VR Gao, Y Xie… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive malignancy that includes subtypes defined
by differential expression of ASCL1, NEUROD1, and POU2F3 (SCLC-A,-N, and-P …

[HTML][HTML] Spike mutation D614G alters SARS-CoV-2 fitness

JA Plante, Y Liu, J Liu, H Xia, BA Johnson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein
substitution D614G became dominant during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

Immunological considerations for COVID-19 vaccine strategies

M Jeyanathan, S Afkhami, F Smaill, MS Miller… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the most formidable challenge to …

COVID-19 vaccines: The status and perspectives in delivery points of view

JY Chung, MN Thone, YJ Kwon - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to the high prevalence and long incubation periods often without symptoms, the severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected millions of individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent emergence of SARS-CoV-2 spike deletion H69/V70 and its role in the Alpha variant B. 1.1. 7

B Meng, SA Kemp, G Papa, R Datir, IATM Ferreira… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
We report severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike ΔH69/V70
in multiple independent lineages, often occurring after acquisition of receptor binding motif …

COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease: from basic mechanisms to clinical perspectives

M Nishiga, DW Wang, Y Han, DB Lewis… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a strain of coronavirus known as
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has become a global …

Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

J Kim, BK Koo, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The historical reliance of biological research on the use of animal models has sometimes
made it challenging to address questions that are specific to the understanding of human …