TThe sheer speed with which Covid-19 spread across the world, along with the novel nature of the virus, has meant that scientists and technicians have been playing a catch-up game. But our knowledge, although incomplete, is now much larger than it was at the beginning of the outbreak, and medical …
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Men who have recovered from Covid-19 are asked to donate plasma for use in treating sick patients in the trials because they have higher levels of antibodies to the virus in their blood than women. Convalescent plasma is being tested worldwide as a possible treatment for the disease. It contains …
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“> Arne Akbar, professor of immunology at UCL and president of the British Society for Immunology, said scientists had to figure out what goes wrong with the immune system as people age. “One thing that is evident, even in healthy older people, is that there is more inflammation throughout the …
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