Research led by investigators at Ghent University in Belgium showed dysregulation of the complement part of the immune system, regulated by the pro-inflammatory protein interleukin (IL)-6, is a key driver of severe COVID-19 and a good target for drugs to treat the effects of the disease.
Researchers investigated methods for measuring prior exposure in patients with suspected, undocumented COVID-19 infection to better access to care and counsel.
Since 2020, there’s been a new dating trend called “Darwinning.” And it’s when you are only willing to date those who have gotten the Covid-19 vaccine.
A study from Weill Cornell Medicine and The Jackson Laboratory has described the epigenetic mark SARS-CoV-2 left on immune system stem cells in the most severe cases of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, before the development of vaccines.