Experts credit the compensation for making the U.S. one of the few countries that are self-sufficient in supplying plasma for ...

If the word immunodeficiency in this title rings a bell, it's most likely because that word is the "I" in HIV and AIDS -- the human immunodeficiency virus and the disease it causes, acquired ...

COVID-19 response leader Anthony Fauci (above) and National Institutes of Health leader Francis Collins recently questioned how efficacious convalescent plasma treatments could be. Credit: Official ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – continues to spread worldwide. 58.8 million people have been infected ...

At the height of the global pandemic last April, Cincinnati’s Mercy Hospital partnered with the Mayo Clinic to enroll local COVID-19 patients in a nationwide clinical trial. The goal? To conduct a ...

Findings from a nationwide, multicenter study led by Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggest that patients with COVID-19 have less chance of developing ...

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created by applying electrical energy to a gas, causing ion formation. When an energy source, such as electrical energy or radio waves, transfers energy to gas ...

More than 11,000 COVID-19 patients across the U.S. have been treated with plasma from survivors of the disease, and Friday scientists studying the treatment released their first official safety ...

Hydrophobic surfaces show low surface energy, so water droplets tend to repel against the surface and create beads that form a spherical droplet with a high water contact angle (>90°). Surfaces can be ...