The Covid-19 pandemic shows the importance of medical research in the treatment of lung diseases. The Medical University of Vienna is renowned the world over in the field of lung transplantation medicine. Currently, they are testing a new therapeutic approach designed to improve the situation of patients in the long term. Continue reading “New therapeutic approach designed to improve life with donor lungs”
In computer simulations of components of the coronavirus, an international team including the physicist Mateusz Sikora found its surface proteins to be unexpectedly flexible. The impressive 3D reconstructions are the first to show detailed information about the virus surface. This has an impact on current vaccine development, as Sikora explains in this interview. Continue reading “The surprising properties of the coronavirus envelope”
Certain drugs against high blood pressure are suspected to cause a more severe course of Covid-19, but this suspicion is still awaiting confirmation by experts. The physician Manfred Hecking is now conducting the first clinical study to investigate the exact relationship between the system that regulates human blood pressure and corona infection. Continue reading “What Corona has to do with high blood pressure”