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Despite its disastrous effects, COVID-19 offers some gifts to medicine – an immunology expert explains what it can teach us about autoimmune disease

  • Written by Dario Ghersi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha
imageImmunologists are studying how the SARS-CoV-2 virus interacts with antibodies in the immune system. Christoph Burgstedt/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

For all the misery that the pandemic has wrought, it has also opened up a vast storehouse of knowledge about medical issues beyond COVID-19. While it’s still too early to draw...

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