As lights went out in schools, restaurants, department stores and hotels due to the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve remained on in research laboratories committed to understanding how SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes the disease known as COVID-19—infects the body. Physiologists and other researchers have teamed up to explore how to stop the spread of the virus, how to treat COVID-19 and how to help people recover.
Below is a collection of posts about the role physiology has played, and will continue to play, in understanding and fighting the disease.
- 2023’s Most-read I Spy Physiology Posts
- How COVID-19 Affects the Gut Microbiome
- Stay Hydrated to Keep Your Muscles Happy
- Why It’s Still Important to Stay Active to Reduce COVID-19 Severity
- New Research on Weight Cycling, Chemotherapy Side Effects, COVID-19 Severity and Concussion Presented at Experimental Biology 2022
- COVID-19: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?
- Spotlight On: Autophagy
- Spotlight On: SARS-CoV-2
- Spotlight On: Smell
- 2021’s Most-read I Spy Physiology Posts
- The COVID ‘15’: Staying Healthy and Informed during a Pandemic
- Post-vaccination Blues: Why Feeling Sick Is a Good Sign
- ‘Life Is Short, the Art Long’: Gaining Perspective from Ancient Wisdom
- How Smell Brings Back Memories
- The Physiology of Grief
- Update: Stay Active to Reduce COVID-19 Severity
- COVID-19 Is Keeping Us Up at Night
- COVID-19 Could Spell Long-term Trouble for Heart and Blood Vessels
- Horseshoe Crabs Help in Fight against COVID-19
- 2020’s Most-read I Spy Physiology Posts
- COVID-19 and Pregnancy: Disease Prevention May Be the Cure
- Food for Thought
- Mild Symptoms, Major Impact: How Getting COVID-19 Changed One Student’s Perspective
- How ACE2 Influences COVID-19 Severity in Older Adults
- Of Pets, People and Lucky Ducks: Risks of COVID-19 Transmission
- COVID-19 and the Heart
- Survey Results: How COVID-19 Is Affecting Researchers
- Exercise Is Medicine: Staying Active during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Beat the Heat with a Wet T-Shirt
- Reckoning with Diversity and Equity Problems in U.S. Research and Clinical Trials
- Animal Research in the Fight against COVID-19
- How Physiologists Are Helping Patients Recover from COVID-19
- Podcasting to Increase Your Scientific Reach in a Time of Social Distancing
- Spiking COVID-19 with Science
- Why COVID-19 Makes It Hard to Breathe
- Who’s WHO When It Comes to COVID-19?