“Smart trackers and fitness watches do a great job at characterizing each individual s unique normal, so your normal resting heart rate, your typical normal activity level and your normal sleep level, so when someone gets sick, we can detect changes to your norm,” Radin said.
The average person s heart rate is between 60-100 beats per minute, and, according to Radin, some people with COVID have an elevated heart rate.
“The key takeaways from this study on average individuals who came down with COVID took two to three months for their resting heart rate to return to their healthy baseline,” Radin said.
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Scientists at Scripps Research in La Jolla have demonstrated a promising new strategy for treating lymphomas, a
group of cancers that begin in infection-fighting cells of the immune system called lymphocytes.
The new approach uses natural cancer-targeting immune cells, known as natural “killer cells,” that have been modified to selectively target lymphoma. As described in the scientists’ study, published in the journal
Angewandte Chemie, the modified natural killer cells brought about a dramatic reduction of lymphoma in a mouse.
“We found a way to achieve selectivity in targeting lymphoma cells, which is an important departure from existing therapies,” said co-senior author Peng Wu, an associate professor in the department of molecular medicine at Scripps Research.