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SARS-CoV-2 infects human embryonic epithelial and lung cells – News-Medical.Net

As COVID-19 continues to spread the world over, investigators are still trying to understand how it ravages the human body. A recent study published on the prep…

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As COVID-19 continues to spread the world over, investigators are still trying to understand how it ravages the human body. A recent study published on the preprint server bioRxiv* in September 2020 shows that the virus is capable of infecting human embryonic cells that are destined to form the epithelial surfaces of the body, both internal and external, as well as lung cells.
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