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10/10/2020

Hot Topics of the Day are picked by experts to capture the latest information and publications on public health genomics and precision health for various diseases and health topics. Sources include published scientific literature, reviews, blogs and popular press articles.

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Pay Attention to the cough: Early Diagnosis of COVID-19 using Interpretable Symptoms Embeddings with Cough Sound Signal Processing
A Pal et al, ARXIV, October 6, 2020

Forecasting COVID-19 daily cases using phone call data
B Rostami-Tabar et al, ARXIV, October 5, 2020

Blockchain for Multi-Robot Collaboration to Combat COVID-19 and Future Pandemics
SH Alsamhi, et al, ARXIV, October 2020

Inhibiting Ebola virus and SARS-CoV-2 entry.
Wells Alexandra I et al. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2020 Oct (6513) 167-168

Mechanisms by which cells defend against many viruses remain largely unknown. Defining them is important not only for understanding viral pathogenesis but also for informing the development of antiviral therapeutics. Concerted efforts of antiviral factors are central to host cell defense. Without them, the cell remains defenseless against harmful pathogens.

Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 during Pregnancy
CDC, October 9, 2020

Based on what is known at this time, pregnant people might be at an increased risk for severe illness from COVID-19 compared to non-pregnant people. Additionally, pregnant people with COVID-19 might have an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as preterm birth.

The need of a multicomponent guiding approach to personalize clopidogrel treatment
C Valeria et al, Pharmacogenomics Journal, October 9, 2020

A systematic review of the controversies about the use of CYP2C19 pharmacogenetics and platelet function testing to personalize clopidogrel treatment. We assess literature with our findings concerning patients eligible for vascular surgery and treated with clopidogrel, in whom we used a combined management based on the CYP2C19 and ABCB1 pharmacogenetic testing.


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