It’s clear the virus can get very close to the brain. It’s less certain if virus can penetrate deeper and invade it. It will take years to more fully understand the way the virus afflicts the brain.
A new study is drawing the most detailed picture yet of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lung revealing mechanisms that cause lethal COVID-19 and how COVID-19 differs from other infectious diseases.
Pathology laboratory screened New York state’s first potential donor—a COVID-19 survivor for antibodies that can be used to treat or vaccine against COVID-19.
A team led by Pathology researcher, Alex Chavez, MD, PhD, will use a new drug screening approach to rapidly screen a large number of compounds that block the protease of 2019-nCoV.