In a Mendelian randomisation analysis, Fergus Hamilton and colleagues test the hypothesis that blockade of interleukin-6 signalling could improve outcomes in sepsis.
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists and clinicians have struggled to understand why some people with the infection become seriously ill or die while others have few, if any, symptoms.
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Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Stanford University in the US have discovered there are specific genetic signals in people who develop severe coronavirus infection.