Date: December 30, 2020 Source 1: Karolinska Institutet Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: In some cases, immune cells in the lungs can contribute to worsening a virus attack. In a new study, researchers describe how different kinds of immune cells, called macrophages, develop in the lungs and which of them may be behind severe lung diseases. […]
Date: July 10, 2020 Source 1: Columbia University Irving Medical Center Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: Based on their experience treating COVID-19, physicians have assembled critical information about the coronavirus’s effects on organs outside the lungs. After only a few days caring for critically ill COVID-19 patients at the start of the outbreak in New York
Human Cell Atlas study could help understand transmission of the virus Date: April 23, 2020 Source 1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Source 2: www.sciencedaily.com Summary: Two specific nose cell types have been identified as likely initial infection points for COVID-19 coronavirus. Scientists discovered that goblet and ciliated cells in the nose have high levels of
