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New LJI discovery could help explain patterns of cell death in many autoimmune diseases
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded more than $6.4 million to Dr. Saphire to support research toward COVID-19 antibody therapeutics.
New understanding of immune cell origins may offer cancer and COVID-19 drug targets
New research suggests that some of us may be partially protected due to past encounters with common cold coronaviruses
Worries over waning antibodies may be overblown, as growing evidence shows a role for T cells in the coronavirus immune response.
The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.
Some people who’ve never been exposed to the novel coronavirus may have protection against it, but that is far from certain
Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.
Researchers caution: It is too soon to say whether pre-existing immune cell memory affects COVID-19 clinical outcomes
We’re now more than seven months into the coronavirus pandemic that has upended the lives of most of Earth’s inhabitants.