COVID-19 — Russia
At Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, immunologist Prof Akiko Iwasaki has spent much of the past year trying to tease apart the differences between how men and women respond to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. One of her early findings was that T cells – a group of cells important to the immune system which seek out and destroy virus-infected cells – are much more active in women than men in the early stages of infection. One component of this is thought to be due to genetics.
“Women have 2 copies
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