How the virus behind COVID-19 can harm your blood vessels and your heart
The same mechanisms involved in COVID-related cardiovascular events are responsible for COVID-related myocarditis.
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Long COVID Severity Linked to White Blood Cell Count
A new study suggests that a simple blood test measuring leukocyte levels, a type of white blood cell, might predict the ...
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When Worlds Collide - A Pathogen's Inside Connection with Host Cells
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a crucial organelle present in all eukaryotic cells, including human cells. The ER plays a ...
Couples help researchers discover gene that may afford protection against COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health worker Maria Tereza Malheiros Sapienza's curiosity was aroused by her immunity to ...
Reverse mutational scanning offers faster response to new virus variants
Viruses are masters at disguise. When they are pushed too far by our immune system, they send new virus variants into play ...
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A cure for HIV: ‘One of the hardest goals in science’
HIV is "like a time bomb," said James Riley, a microbiologist at University of Pennsylvania, US. Even now — decades after the virus was identified — and with antiretroviral drugs allowing us to ...
Flesh-eating bacteria is on the rise in Canada and 'scaring the living daylights' out of ER doctors
Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...
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Pancreatic cancer: Oncolytics Biotech, Candel, and CytomX bring promising therapies to the clinic
Discover new treatments currently being developed for pancreatic cancer, which has historically been extremely difficult to ...
I was screaming in agony when my pants ‘flossed my insides’ – I will never wear knickers to bed again, I could have died
WEARING your knickers to bed is extremely common for young women. Around half (49%) of 18-24 year old women wear just ...