Texas Standard: Metal ions and COVID-19

June 8, 2021

Dr. Yogesh Gupta, Biochemistry/Structural Biology/Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, spoke to Texas Public Radio’s Bonnie Petrie and that program was repeated for broadcast by the Texas Standard. The topic centered on the recent published findings in Nature Communications about the COVID virus using metal ions, like magnesium and calcium in our bodies, as a disguise […]



SFGATE.com: Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself, study shows

June 4, 2021

Dr. Yogesh Gupta and other researchers, Biochemistry/Structural Biology/Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, have discovered a mechanism by which SARS-CoV-2 exploits changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itself in the body; varying concentrations of metal ions — positively charged atoms such as magnesium, manganese and calcium — are observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Read the […]


Yahoo! Finance: Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself, study shows

June 4, 2021

Dr. Yogesh Gupta and other researchers, Biochemistry/Structural Biology/Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute, are reporting a mechanism by which the COVID-19 virus takes advantage of changes in metal ion concentrations to disguise itself; Nature Communications published the findings on June 2. Read the story.