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The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with both short- and long-term neurologic complications, including stroke, brain fog and persistent tiredness. A new study concludes that the effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the central nervous system (CNS) are due to the endothelial injury and inflammation that this produces in the brain.

Mario Gutierrez consults Prof. Lola Eniola while using fluorescent microscopy to study the effect of red blood rigidification on the thermodynamics of blood flow. Graduate students and post-docs work at Prof. Lola Eniola’s Cell Adhesion & Drug Delivery Lab in North Campus Research Complex. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski/Multimedia Director and Senior Producer, University of Michigan, College of Engineering White researchers are nearly twice as likely to be awarded a grant than Black scienti...

Tohoku University scientists have, for the first time, provided experimental evidence that cell stickiness helps them stay sorted within correct compartments during development.