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The Common Cold
Why it makes some of us sicker than others
A new study drills down into why some of us are hit harder by rhinovirus (the most frequent cause of the common cold) than others.
Scientists created a nose-in-a-dish, infected it with the common cold virus, and analyzed how thousands of nasal airway cells responded to the infection. (Yale News)
Their findings? It’s not the rhinovirus itself but the body’s early immune response that determines whether the common cold stays mild or flares into something more dangerous.
Foxman and colleagues in the lab
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