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Research Reveals How COVID-19 Can Kill Heart Muscle Cells, Interfere With Contraction (Links to an external site)
By WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MARCH 2, 2021 Study reveals details of how coronavirus infects heart; models of tissue damage may help develop potential therapies.
Antibody-based COVID-19 treatments work best in concert with immune cells (Links to an external site)
Findings involving antibody effector functions could help improve design of next-generation COVID-19 antibody drugs
Glioblastoma Omics Study Highlights Informative Tumor Features, Immune Subtypes (Links to an external site)
By Staff Reporter NEW YORK – A team from Washington University, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and elsewhere has identified immune subgroups in glioblastoma (GBM) that may ultimately help in developing more effective immunotherapy approaches against aggressive brain cancer.
U.S. rushes to fill void in viral sequencing as worrisome coronavirus variants spread (Links to an external site)
By Meredith Wadman Since May 2020, Jeffrey Milbrandt has had his systems fine-tuned to sequence 1000 coronavirus samples a week. The director of a major sequencing center at Washington University in St. Louis (WashU), Milbrandt knew months ago that the United States urgently needed to identify and track emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic coronavirus already […]
PercayAI and Saint Louis University Partner to Accelerate AI Adoption across Biomedical Sciences Research (Links to an external site)
