Covid research

Long COVID has lingered like a mystery that refuses to be solved. For millions of people across the world, the end of their initial COVID-19 infection did not mark the end of their symptoms. Instead, new challenges emerged, ranging from fatigue and brain fog to shortness of breath, nerve pain, gastrointestinal problems and a frustrating …

Someone had to walk into a shrinking Brazilian rainforest, find a tree that grows nowhere else on Earth, and collect its leaves before this discovery could ever make headlines. Researchers studying the plant have now found compounds that showed antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 in laboratory experiments, with one molecule appearing to interact strongly with a …