Dr. Jaquelin Dudley, LCID Associate Director, was recently interviewed for an article in the Daily Beast on a potential nasal swab test that could be developed to determine if COVID patients will need to be hospitalized.
The article, published Oct. 20, 2021, looks at a recent study in EMBO Molecular Medicine regarding the discovery of Flower-lose (hFwe-Lose) proteins. These "fitness" proteins reside on the surface of certain cells that can be used to determine which COVID-19 patients may be at risk of a severe case of the disease. Scientists, led by researchers based at institutions in Europe, found the proteins by using a nasal swab test that could be utilized in the future to find the proteins at the same time someone is tested for COVID infection.
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