Research and development

The biochip for detecting coronavirus, which is being developed at the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI", will be able to diagnose coronavirus in 5-10 minutes.

Director of the Research Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Viral Infections Georgy Vikulov said that the number of patients with lung damage due to coronavirus has recently doubled.

To obtain accurate data on the presence of antibodies to coronavirus, tests should be taken in the same laboratories. This is reported by RBC with reference to experts.

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor of the Department of Virology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Alexei Agranovsky, appreciated the statement of the WHO that the world is at the beginning of a new wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The stabilization of the situation with the coronavirus in the Russian Federation should not be expected until mid-late August, and the fourth place in terms of incidence in the world is not the limit, says infectious disease doctor.

The results of a large international study showed that patients with pre-existing lung diseases are most susceptible to severe complications from COVID-19.

Russia is in 4th place in terms of the number of cases of coronavirus due to the small number of vaccinated people relative to Britain or the United States.

Several strains of coronavirus most often infect people with weakened immunity, the elderly, the disease can be more severe, but often simply lasts longer than with the disease with one strain.

The scientists from the Crimean Federal University have carried out comprehensive studies of the effects of vapors of electronic cigarettes on the lungs.

Vaccination of 80% of the population could stop the epidemic of the new coronavirus in Russia, said RIA Novosti, Doctor of Biological Sciences.

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is capable of multiplying in the salivary glands, a group of pathologists, dentists and otolaryngologists from the University of São Paulo School of Medicine in Brazil said.

According to him, scientists have irrefutable evidence that the grandiose structures were built by ordinary people.

As Russian scientist believes, there is no evidence that a coronavirus mutation with the ability to infect people in a new way will be viable, and the new route of infection will become more active than the classic one.

Specialists from South Ural State University (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) have discovered a substance from among the so-called titanium-containing hexaferrites, which is highly effective as a catalyst for electrochemical reactions for obtaining oxygen from water.

In the south of Brazil, doctors have identified a new variant of the coronavirus, the so-called lambda strain SARS-CoV-2.