Since my last newsletter, none of the new preprints* look interesting enough for deep dives, but a number deserve a mention. Here they are. One showed that immune system cells known as neutrophils respond to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, with “neutrophil extracellular traps” (NETs), which play a role in damaging lung tissue. I first learned about NETs at the Experimental Biology conference in 2011. The neutrophils rearrange their DNA to form a net-like structure and then spit it out into their environment to trap invaders. It's very reminiscent of Spiderman.
12 New COVID-19 Studies
12 New COVID-19 Studies
12 New COVID-19 Studies
Since my last newsletter, none of the new preprints* look interesting enough for deep dives, but a number deserve a mention. Here they are. One showed that immune system cells known as neutrophils respond to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, with “neutrophil extracellular traps” (NETs), which play a role in damaging lung tissue. I first learned about NETs at the Experimental Biology conference in 2011. The neutrophils rearrange their DNA to form a net-like structure and then spit it out into their environment to trap invaders. It's very reminiscent of Spiderman.