Researchers with the Embedded Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne are developing a diagnostic test on a smartphone app that works by “listening” to the sound of the user’s cough.

Research shows that using paper towels is substantially more effective than jet dryers for removing microbes when still contaminated hands are dried.

Study suggests testing and contact tracing and population behavioral changes – measures which have far less disruptive social and economic impact than total lockdown – can meaningfully control COVID-19.

MIT researchers design antibody-like receptor proteins that can bind to cytokines, as possible strategy for treating coronavirus and other infections.

China’s government has started asserting tight control over COVID-19 research findings.

There is growing evidence that COVID-19 can have serious effects on organs far beyond the lungs.

The University of Alberta virology lab found that a drug originally meant for Ebola is effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Remdesivir is already in human trials in search for treatment of the deadly disease.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Solid State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center are developing ultraviolet LEDs that have the ability to decontaminate surfaces — and potentially air and water — that have come in contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Pangolins, not snakes, may be the missing link for transmission of the new coronavirus from bats to humans.

More than 1.97 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 128,445 have died, according to Reuters.