Patients with severe COVID-19 infections have higher blood levels of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), which produce NETosis, an inflammatory type of neutrophil cell death. Researchers believe the NETs may be relevant to numerous aspects of novel coronavirus as thrombosis and inflammation are hallmarks of the severe infection.
A Stem Cell Report study details a new method to produce human neurons from iPSCs.
Two new studies shed light on how protein misfolding relates to genes implicated in Parkinson's disease.