Two studies reveal key insights into long COVID
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain Healthcare providers are learning critical new information to help improve care for patients with long COVID, ...
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Immunocompromised patients and COVID infections: who is at risk?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Early in the pandemic, clinicians noticed that some immunocompromised patients had persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, some lasting ...
Scientists make COVID receptor protein in mouse cells
The scientists used fluorescence microscopy to visualize human ACE2 proteins expressed on mouse cells after incubating the cells with fluorescently ...
Study finds complement system causes cell damage during long COVID
“Patients with long active COVID illness also had elevated blood levels, indicating damage to various cells in the body.” Credit: ...
Genotyping study shows how COVID variants can be detected faster
Credit: CC0 Public domain Genotyping technology detects COVID variants faster and more cheaply than ever before, according to a study ...
UK-wide study reveals harm caused by people not getting COVID vaccines
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain More than 7,000 people were hospitalized or died from COVID-19 in the UK during the summer ...
In long COVID patients, immune cells don’t follow the rules
CD4 specific to SARS-CoV-2+ T lymphocytes from individuals with CL preferentially express homing receptors associated with migration to inflamed tissues. ...
Researchers find fatigue felt by long-term COVID patients has a physical cause
Credit: Natural communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44432-3 Researchers from UMC Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that persistent fatigue ...
Experimental drug that alters gut microbiome shows promise for prolonged COVID relief
Proportion of PACS symptom reduction within six months. Credit: Lancet infectious diseases (2023). DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00685-0 A randomized controlled trial conducted ...
New COVID vaccine induces good antibody response against mutated virus variants, study finds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain Researchers from Karolinska Institutet and Danderyd Hospital followed recipients of the new updated COVID-19 vaccine and ...
