The TLR8 discovery inspired an ongoing collaboration of scientists nationwide who had encountered children and teenagers — all boys, at this point — with inexplicable immune deficiencies believed to trigger enlarged organs, blood disorders and sometimes death.
Category: Washington University School of Medicine
COVID-19 study looks at genetics of healthy people who develop severe illness (Links to an external site)
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is one of more than 30 genome sequencing hubs worldwide participating in a study to sequence the DNA of young, healthy adults and children who develop severe COVID-19 despite having no underlying medical problems.