Cells in the lungs and blood vessels contain an abundance of ACE2 receptors, which the virus infiltrates using a spike protein on its outer membrane. These receptors are the virus’s main ...

In the last few months, schools all over the country have closed because of outbreaks of norovirus. Also known as stomach flu, norovirus infections cause watery diarrhea, low-grade fever and, most ...

Patients with clonal hematopoiesis have trouble making healthy red and white ... they are infected by a virus. This confusion triggers immune defenses within blood cells themselves, leading ...

Neanderthal blood types may have made them ill-equipped to deal with infectious diseases.

More information: Takato Takenouchi et al, Establishment and characterization of an immortalized red river hog blood-derived macrophage cell line, Frontiers in Immunology (2024). DOI: 10.3389 ...

The same oligosaccharides on red blood cells also appear on the surface of cells that line the small intestine. Norovirus and a few other viruses use these oligosaccharides to grab onto and infect ...