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New study reveals how bats evolved to avoid cancer
For example, by better understanding the mechanisms of the bat immune system that allow bats to tolerate viral infections, researchers may be better...
Explained: How lung cells induce immune response to flu
Influenza viruses remain a major threat to human health and can cause severe symptoms in young, elderly, and immuno-compromised populations
Study explains why Covid virus affects smell and taste
Human senses of smell and taste both rely on sensory neurons in the peripheral nervous system
Study finds lung cells induce immune response to influenza
Influenza viruses threaten between 3 and 5 million people with severe sickness and result in 290,000 to 650,000 fatalities globally
Covid variants can evolve 3x faster in deer than in humans: Study
The study, published in the Nature Communications, showed that white-tailed deer across Ohio, US, have increasingly been infected with SARS-CoV-2
This is how coronaviruses jump from species to species
New research has revealed that ACE2 isn’t required for infection. Instead, the virus has other means it can use to infect cells.
Long Covid not caused by Covid’s immune inflammatory response: Study
researchers found there was no rapid increase in immune cells targeting SARS-CoV-2 at three months.
How human immune system detects Covid
The study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, described a previously unknown inflammasome immune protein known as CARD8.