Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this interview, she talks about how COVID-19 can affect your...
January 29, 2021 8.25am EST Editor’s note: Julie Walsh-Messinger is a clinical psychologist who studies the effects of long-term smell loss. Her research has focused on smell loss in people with serious and persistent mental illnesses, but since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, she has also studied smell loss caused by COVID-19. In this interview, she talks about...
THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL / MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Paper Title: SARS-CoV-2 infects human adult donor eyes and hESC-derived ocular epithelium Authors: Timothy Blenkinsop, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell, Developmental & Regenerative Biology, and Benjamin tenOever, PhD, Professor, Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and other coauthors. Bottom Line: SARS-CoV-2, the causative...
by Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The early immune response in a person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 can predict the level of protection they will have to the virus over time, according to analysis from Australian mathematicians, clinicians, and scientists, and published today in Nature Medicine. The researchers from...
NYU LANGONE HEALTH / NYU GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IMAGE: CAPTION CHEST X-RAY FROM PATIENT SEVERELY ILL FROM COVID-19, SHOWING (IN WHITE PATCHES) INFECTED TISSUE SPREAD ACROSS THE LUNGS CREDIT: CREDIT COURTESY OF NATURE PUBLISHING OR NPJ DIGITAL MEDICINE Trained to see patterns by analyzing thousands of chest X-rays, a computer program predicted with up...
Source: Georgia Tech Covid-19 patients who receive oxygen therapy or experience fever show reduced gray matter volume in the frontal-temporal network of the brain, according to a new study led by researchers at Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The study found lower gray matter volume in this brain region was associated with...
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH IMAGE: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE GLOBAL CONSORTIUM STUDY OF NEUROLOGIC DYSFUNCTION IN COVID-19, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE, NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND UPMC, AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE PITT SAFAR CENTER FOR RESUSCITATION RESEARCH. CREDIT: SHERRY CHOU PITTSBURGH, May 11, 2021 – Patients with clinically...
A comprehensive review into what we know about COVID-19 and the way it functions suggests the virus has a unique infectious profile, which explains why it can be so hard to treat and why some people experience so-called “long-COVID”, struggling with significant health issues months after infection. There is growing evidence that the virus infects...
by Eva Frederick, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research An image of lung cancer cells infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Blue represents DNA, green shows the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein, and red represents double-stranded RNA, which occurs when the virus replicates its genome. A new study from the Jaenisch lab suggests that some virus RNA can be reverse transcribed...
by Stuart Wolpert, University of California, Los Angeles Life during the COVID-19 pandemic has been uniquely stressful for parents with children at home. For some parents, schools welcoming children back for in-person instruction—even for limited schedules in many cases—has provided a long-awaited measure of relief and cause for optimism. But Bridget Callaghan, a UCLA assistant professor...
