Biomedical Innovations to Combat COVID-19

• Other Authors: Rosales-Mendoza, Sergio (Editor), Comas-Garcia, Mauricio (Editor), Gonzalez-Ortega, Omar (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, United Kingdom Elsevier 2022
• Subjects: COVID-19 Vaccines; SARS Coronavirus 2 Vaccines; Biomedical Research
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Biomedical Innovations to Combat COVID-19 provides an updated overview on the development of vaccines, antiviral drugs and nanomaterials, and diagnostic methods for the fight against COVID-19. Perspectives on such technologies are identified, discussed, and enriched with figures for easy understandi...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Basic virological aspects of SARS-CoV-2 - 2 Fundamental aspects of the structural biology of coronaviruses - 3 Introduction to the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 epidemiology - 4 Structural biology of the SARS-CoV-2 replisome: evolutionary and therapeutic implications - 5 Clinical progression of patients with COVID-19: the impact of the pandemic in Latin America - 6 Overview of the immune response against SARS-CoV-2 - 7 Viral-vectored vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 - 8 RNA-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 - 9 Particulate vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 - 10 Virus-like particle-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 - 11 Innovative recombinant protein-based vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 - 12 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines: current trends and prospects of developing plant-derived vaccines - 13 Nanobodies targeting SARS-CoV-2 - 14 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructurs platforms for advanced sensing of COVID-19 - 15 Microfluidic-based biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies - 16 Antivirals based on nanomaterials against SARS-CoV-2 - 17 The potential of drug delivery nanosystems to treat COVID-19 - 18 The role of traditional medicine in the fight against SARS-CoV-2