The findings illustrate the important impact that the trillions of bacteria in our gut collectively called our 'gut microbiome' have on our immune health and add a missing piece to the puzzle of why vaccination varies in effectiveness from person to person
According to researchers, COVID-19 patients struggling with severe neurological symptoms exhibit signs of impairment in the blood-brain barrier, and changes in brain structure depending on the severity of their symptoms.
A new international multi-institutional study led by scientists from Penn Medicine has found that fenofibrate was unable to reduce the severity of disease or prevent adverse outcomes such as deaths in COVID-19 patients.
According to a new multi-institutional study, certain "accessory" or nonspike genes, and their mutations, influence the pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
A new multi-institutional study has found that Khosta-2, a virus that was identified in 2020 among bats in Russia, can infect human cells; these findings are significant as both SARS-CoV-2 and Khosta-2 are sarbecoviruses, a sub-category of coronaviruses.