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Severe COVID could cause markers of old age in the brain

Key genes that are active in the brains of older people are also active in the brains of people who developed serious COVID-19.
  1. Heidi Ledford
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Severe COVID-19 is linked to changes in the brain that mirror those seen in old age, according to an analysis of dozens of post-mortem brain samples1.

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Nature 612, 389 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04253-8

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