Featured this week: 

• Marco Hefti, MD
• Kimberly Fiock, PhD
• David Meyerholz, DVM, PhD

• Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes. Butler MLMD, Pervaiz N, Breen K, Calderazzo S, Ypsilantis P, Wang Y, Breda JC, Mazzilli S, Nicks R, Spurlock E, Hefti MM, Fiock KL, Huber BR, Alvarez VE, Stein TD, Campbell JD, McKee AC, Cherry JD. Nature. 2025 Sep 17. doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09534-6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40963024
   
• IL-13 decreases susceptibility to airway epithelial SARS-CoV-2 infection but increases disease severity in vivo via eicosanoid signalling. Ghimire S, Xue B, Li K, Gannon RM, Wohlford-Lenane CL, Thurman AL, Gong H, Necker GC, Zheng J, Meyerholz DK, Perlman S, McCray PB Jr, Pezzulo AA. EBioMedicine. 2025 Sep 15;120:105920. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.105920. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40957220