Researchers use fruit fly model to understand COVID-19-related neurological complications
An interesting preprint by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute, USA, claims to have reproduced disease mechanisms due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the fruit fly, Drosophila, while also providing proof of the efficacy of one drug against these disease processes. If validated, these findings represent a new understanding of how the virus causes neurological symptoms that could help develop more effective therapies.
Post-viral syndrome in COVID-19
COVID-19 has by now caused over 76.88 million cases, 1.7 million deaths, and devastating economic disruption. Primarily a severe pneumonic illness, affecting the lungs, it is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Much progress has been made into understanding the mechanism of viral infection. However, much remains to be known about how the viral p