COVID FUELED IQ DECLINE
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COVID-19 long-term side effects go far beyond just respiratory issues. Abundant evidence suggests COVID-19 affects the brain and impairs neurocognitive ability. Those with brain fog say they experience sluggishness, struggling with memory retention and difficulty concentrating.
A new pope has been elected. Robert Francis Prevost, of the United States, and the first American pope, has been selected by the papal conclave to take over as leader of the 1.4 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
The new pontiff, who chose the name Leo XIV, was chosen on day 2 of the conclave. It came over two weeks after the death of Pope Francis, who passed away at the age of 88.
Prevost, 69, is a Chicago-born cardinal who previously served in Peru for two decades.
gene variant that helps protect people from HIV infection likely originated in people who lived during the span of time between the Stone Age and the Viking Age, a new study of thousands of genomes reveals.
"It turns out that the variant arose in one individual who lived in an area near the Black Sea between 6,700 and 9,000 years ago," Simon Rasmussen, a bioinformatics expert at the University of Copenhagen and co-senior author of the study, said in a statement. The variant must have been helpful for something else in the past, since HIV in humans is less than a century old.
In a study published May 5 in the journal Cell, Rasmussen and his colleagues detailed their search for the origin of a genetic mutation known as CCR5 delta 32. CCR5 is a protein predominantly found in immune cells that many — but not all — HIV strains use to break into those cells and trigger infection.
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