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Antibody Response Affects COVID-19 Outcomes in Kids and Adults
Doctors can’t reliably predict whether an adult newly diagnosed with COVID-19 will recover quickly or battle life-threatening complications. The same is true for children. Fortunately, the vast majority of kids with COVID-19 don’t get sick or show only mild flu-like symptoms. But a small percentage develop a delayed but extremely troubling syndrome called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). This can cause severe inflammation of the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, and other parts of the body, coming on weeks after recovering from COVID-19. Thankfully, most kids respond to treatment and make rapid recoveries.
March 10 Webinar: Where to find data for your research organism!
Do you work with data from organisms outside the traditional set of model organisms? Join us on March 10, 2021 to learn how to use NCBI resources including NCBI’s Taxonomy and BLAST that can help you find information from your organism and closely related taxa. You will see an example that shows you how to …
Important Update About How You Log Into your NCBI Accounts
As mentioned in a previous blog post, we are transitioning to using 3rd party logins for all My NCBI accounts. We are doing this because NIH, NLM, and NCBI take your privacy and security very seriously. Transitioning to 3rd parties who have modern and industry-standard security practices ensures that you have the highest level of …
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For Constipated Scorpions, Females Suffer Reproductively. Males, Not So Much.
After the arachnids drop their tails, poop backs up until it kills them, but before that it can affect pregnancy
The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19
Fighting the pandemic isn’t only about vaccines and drugs. It’s about understanding how viruses mutate and change inside us, and among us.
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Use our new Betacoronavirus database for SARS‑CoV‑2 genome sequence analysis
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