How SARS-CoV-2 evades the immune system

Researchers in Japan and the United States have found SARS-CoV-2 can knock out an important molecular pathway linked to an immune complex called MHC class I. The finding should help scientists better understand how COVID-19 infection takes hold.

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Innate immunity, cytokine storm, and inflammatory cell death in COVID-19, Journal of Translational Medicine

Our Immune Systems Blanket the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein with Antibodies

Antigenic minimalism of SARS-CoV-2 is linked to surges in COVID-19 community transmission and vaccine breakthrough infections

Scientists Pinpoint Protein that Helps Cancer-Causing Viruses Evade Immune Response

How COVID-19 variants evade immune response

The effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection on modulating innate immunity and strategies of combating inflammatory response for COVID-19 therapy, Journal of Biomedical Science

Omicron may be significantly better at evading vaccine-induced immunity, but less likely to cause severe disease

Does infection with or vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 lead to lasting immunity? - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

An omicron vocab lesson, from 'immune evasion' to 'outcompete' to 'epistasis' : Goats and Soda : NPR

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