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Share on PinterestResearch from Sweden suggests that people with mild or asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 may have immunity from future infection.Most people who are exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, only experience mild symptoms or none at all. However, the infection can still pass from them to other people, and the overall case…

Share on PinterestNew research suggests that SARS-CoV-2 may be more dangerous than other coronaviruses because it reduces specific microRNAs.The perspective appears in the American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.Coronaviruses (CoVs) are single-stranded RNA viruses that experts originally considered to be relatively mild. They include the viruses that cause the common cold. However, researchers…

Share on PinterestComputer modeling has helped researchers find that a drug called Ebselen may be helpful in treating COVID-19.Hopefully, the COVID-19 pandemic will not last forever. Every 2 weeks, we round up the recently published evidence that reminds us of this. In our last installment, we reported on a vaccine candidate that showed promise in…

Share on PinterestA new algorithm could reduce the risk of complications in COVID-19 patients with diabetes.People with diabetes are one of the groups at higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19. Although people with diabetes are not more likely to contract the disease initially, they are more likely to face worse outcomes.Complications in people with…

Share on PinterestWinston Morgan, Ph.D., is a reader in toxicology and clinical biochemistry at the University of East London.A few years ago, I wrote about the fact that after more than 100 years, there had not been a Black Nobel laureate in science. I argued then about the structural problems that Black scientists and other…