WASHINGTON — Airway sphingolipids were detected in small volumes of nasal fluid taken from children with asthma, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.Nasal fluids therefore may be useful in assessing a sphingolipid endotype of asthma, Zena Solomon, MD, a second-year pulmonology fellow in the department of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine,
Researchers report the association of subgenomic RNA (sgRNA) production, the structural differences between sgRNA variants, and clinical severity in 81 clinical specimens obtained from both asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection.