SARS-CoV-2 triggers the production of the antiviral protein IFN- γ , which is associated with fatigue, muscle ache and depression. New research shows that in Long COVID patients, IFN- y production ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11 declared COVID-19 a pandemic, pointing to the over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and ...

Humans have always battled microbes. But if the assaults seem to be coming more frequently and ferociously, that's because they are ...

A research team from three Johns Hopkins institutions has shown that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can “reprogram” pathogen-fighting white blood cells known as neutrophils (left side) ...

A new longitudinal study provides critical insights into the intricate interplay between human immunity and viral evolution during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research analyzed antibody responses in ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t ...

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been controversy surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. New research from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), School of Medicine ...

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus." —Andersen KM, et al. (2020) 1 COVID-19 Misinformation Under ongoing threat from a novel ...