Persistent immune activation and elevated cytokine levels were observed in patients with severe COVID-19, even months after recovery. However, the correlation between immune activation and long COVID symptoms appeared to be independent, suggesting other factors influencing disease severity.
New research reveals how social isolation impacts behavior and lifespan in social species
Researchers used Camponotus fellah (carpenter ants) as a model species to perform behavioral tracking and ribonucleic acid-sequencing (RNA-seq) to study the transcriptome-level differences between socially isolated