UCLA researchers, led by Melody Li, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, recently published an unexpected finding about the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein – they found that it triggers a tissue-damaging inflammatory response from certain immune cells. This finding could explain a key mechanism driving long-COVID and cardiovascular damage associated with the disease, and it offers a focused target for developing new treatments.
You can read more about this latest discovery at UCLA Health and Discover Magazine.