A simple step in many people’s hygiene left an English man developing a near-fatal infection that spread to the lining of his brain. Over the past five years, the man had been experiencing pain ...

3 “Their very early on infection in the upper airway put them in very close proximity to the brain, so maybe that’s how they get into the brain,” said Felipe Santiago-Tirado, a cell biologist at the ...

They found that the brain’s glial cells were susceptible to COVID-19 infection. Until UTSA’s discovery, there hadn’t been much scientific reporting on the glial cell and SARS-CoV-2 connection. “Glial ...