Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Convalescent COVID-19 plasma beneficial for immunocompromised

Transfusion of convalescent COVID-19 plasma is associated with a reduction in mortality for immunocompromised patients, according to a systematic review published online Jan. 12 in JAMA Network Open.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Nasal injections could treat long-term COVID-19–related smell loss

Early in the pandemic, when people with COVID-19 began reporting that they lost their sense of smell, Zara Patel, MD, figured as much. A professor of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine, Patel has, for years, studied loss ...

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Newly discovered surface structures may affect immune function

Using new microscopic methods in combination with machine learning-based image analysis, researchers from Freiburg have discovered new structures on the surface of living B cells that affect the distribution and possibly ...

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Autopsies show COVID-19 virus in brain, elsewhere in body

An analysis of tissue samples from the autopsies of 44 people who died with COVID-19 shows that SAR-CoV-2 virus spread throughout the body—including into the brain—and that it lingered for almost eight months. The study ...

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When the body's B cell training grounds stay open after hours

If B cells are the munitions factories of the immune system, manufacturing antibodies to neutralize harmful pathogens, then the tiny biological structures known as germinal centers are its weapons-development facilities. ...

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