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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 31-May-2025 11:09 ET (31-May-2025 15:09 GMT/UTC)

70% of young people with long Covid recover within two years

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Most young people who were confirmed to have long Covid three months after a positive PCR test had recovered within 24 months, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Journal: Communications Medicine

Researchers design a therapeutic tool to inhibit the proliferation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19

University of Barcelona
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study led by the University of Barcelona and the Spanish National Research Council’s Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC - CSIC) presents a new therapeutic tool capable of inhibiting the proliferation of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19. The results open up new perspectives in the fight against this coronavirus and other viral diseases that still have no medical treatment, such as the Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHFV).

Journal: Journal of Biological Chemistry

COVID infection and age-related blindness

PNAS Nexus
Peer-Reviewed Publication

An experimental study in mice shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection can damage the retinas. According to the authors, SARS-CoV-2 infection could thus accelerate the onset and progression of age-related blindness.

Journal: PNAS Nexus

Pregnancy enhances natural immunity to block severe flu

McGill University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

McGill University scientists have discovered that pregnancy may trigger a natural immunity to boost protection against severe flu infection. Contrary to the common belief that pregnancy increases vulnerability to infections, researchers found that it strengthened an immune defense in mice, blocking the Influenza A virus from spreading to the lungs, where it can cause severe infection.

Journal: Science Advances

Study details surprising biological mechanisms underlying severe COVID-19

Weill Cornell Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Severe COVID-19 arises in part from the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s impact on mitochondria, tiny oxygen-burning power plants in cells, which can help trigger a cascade of organ- and immune system-damaging events, suggests a study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, along with other members of the COVID-19 International Research Team.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Study untangles how COVID-19 wreaks widespread damage in the body

University of Pittsburgh
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New research sheds light on the pathways that drive organ damage and death in severe COVID-19 and helps explain why survivors of the disease can experience long-term complications.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Brief scientific literacy interventions may quash new conspiracy theories

Penn State
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The more time you spend on social media, the likelier you are to have come across a viral post that seems too strange to be true. Brief scientific literacy interventions, especially those that focus on critical thinking skills, may help to undermine conspiracy beliefs and behaviors before the conspiracy theories have a chance to take root, according to a team led by Penn State researchers.

Journal: Journal of Consumer Research

A cause of hyperinflammatory response in lethal COVID-19 identified

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

As part of the COVID-19 International Research Team, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pittsburgh and Weill Cornell Medicine discovered a novel cause of cytokine storm — the extreme inflammatory response associated with increased risk of death in COVID-19 infection.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: Division of Intramural Research, NIH grant to Sonja Best, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation, Hodson Scholar Foundation

Covid-19 reduced sex offender behaviour – new study

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The number of sex offences committed by strangers decreased significantly in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, new research shows.

Journal: Psychology of Violence

New antibody breakthrough offers hope against evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants

Kumamoto University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Kumamoto University researchers have identified a powerful antibody that can neutralize a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants, including the elusive Omicron subvariants.

Journal: EBioMedicine

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