Traumatic brain injuries, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), have recently emerged as a major risk factor for ...
But there is ongoing research unpicking what the virus is doing inside the body. If we focus on a single neuron - one instrument in the brain's orchestra - it is coated in a fatty layer of ...
The content is produced solely by The Conversation. Ebola is a terrifying virus which, if left untreated, causes bleeding inside the body and through the eyes, nose, mouth and rectum. Case ...
In both of those cases, virus samples showed that once it was in the body, it mutated in ways that would allow it to stick to cells in the mucous membrane lining the upper respiratory tract.