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and infected them with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
This may go some way in explaining the link between COVID and the risk Data from 62 countries provides
evidence for a double standard in
of developing certain neurological disorders.
gender rules
A possible target for treatment Women who prefer male friends are
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peers, study finds
One limitation of our research is that our organoid models closely
resemble the foetal or early brain, rather than the adult brain. So we can’t Five-month-old infants can identify the
say for sure whether the changes we noted in our study will necessarily be face of their mother in the blink of an
eye
reflected in the adult brain.
From here we want to study how different drugs could inhibit the changes
we saw in the infected models, hopefully paving the way towards effective
treatments. In other research, we’ve observed that an antibiotic called
minocycline can reduce the degree to which microglia prune synapses in
a dish. So we want to see if this drug can help in our brain organoid
models following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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