A drug used for cancer therapy has shown promise in reversing kidney damage caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, or lupus), according to a Yale-led study published April 8 Translational Medicine.

CMU's experts explore the options. Researchers and doctors around the world are in a race to save lives, not only through caring for patients sick with COVID-19, but in the hunt to discover an effective treatment or vaccine.

In the future, treating a concussion could be as simple as cooling the brain. That's according to research conducted by University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers, whose findings support the treatment approach at the cellular level.

Researchers will look for potential new treatments for COVID-19 using the computing power of people's smartphones. Working with Vodafone Foundation, the ‘Corona-AI' project will use the free DreamLab app , which crunches calculations using a smartphone's computing power while its user sleeps.

Carbohydrates are complex molecules, difficult to synthesize in the lab, but doing so is useful in studying beneficial sugars such as those found in human breast milk, or enabling researchers to tailor the chemical structure of drug candidates, vaccines and natural products.

A team of Cardiff University scientists has switched from researching cancer to work that could help towards a vaccine for coronavirus.