The Virus That Hijacks Your Immune System's First Responders

Send us Fan Mail Think of your immune system as a sophisticated military operation. Neutrophils are the rapid response team—they arrive first at any sign of trouble, ready to fight. But what if an invader could somehow reprogram these first responders to work against their own army? That's exactly what researchers led by Shia and colleagues discovered SARS-CoV-2 can do. Within just one hour of exposure to the virus, healthy neutrophils begin expressing surface markers that transform them into...