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A cytokine storm. (selvanegra via iStock by Getty Images)
Israeli researchers say they have identified a possible method to stop the immune system overreaction that has been linked to many deaths from COVID-19, as well as other diseases.
The body’s T cells normally protect it against disease, but they can cause serious health problems when they become overactive. These include cytokine storms, the immune reaction that causes major inflammation and is believed to be behind many of the deaths among COVID-19 patients. The cytokine storms also harm many people suffering from autoimmune diseases.
But researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology think they have identified a possible route for stopping this overreaction. They have pinpointed a “regulatory site” in a protein within T cells which decides whether or not to launch immune reactions.
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Hasan Abasi has a doctorate in computer science from the prestigious Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and has worked at Intel, IBM and Google. But the critical moment of his career came when he tried to order takeout food to his house.
This was in 2018, when Abasi was living in the Arab town Umm al-Fahm. “Until then, I had been living in Haifa and Switzerland, so it was my first experience ordering a meal to Umm al-Fahm,” he said, “I discovered that it was really difficult. The Facebook page of the restaurant didn’t have a menu or pictures of the food. It took me 15 minutes to explain to the delivery boy how to get to my place because it has no street name or number. I was upset: I’m developing autonomous vehicles at Google and I can’t order food home. That was when the penny dropped.”