News
New research helps explain why the ‘cold virus’ prefers cold temperatures
Ellen Foxman, MD, PhD, one of Laboratory Medicine’s physician-scientist trainees working with Dr. Akiko Iwasaki of the Department of Immunobiology, recently discovered that the common cold virus can reproduce more efficiently in the cooler temperature found inside the nose than at core body temperature. This finding may confirm the popular, yet contested, notion that people are more likely to catch a cold in cool-weather conditions. See the full article in Yale News and Dr. Foxman’s interview on
Source: YaleNews