Health
Scientists grow ‘mini-lungs’ in lab, infect them with coronavirus and watch battle in real time – The Indian Express
In both studies, scientists observed how the virus damages the alveoli in the lungs. Alveoli are balloon-like air sacs that take up the oxygen we breathe and release…
Written by Kabir Firaque
| New Delhi |
October 24, 2020 2:17:37 pm
Medical workers check a X-ray photo of a lung of a patient suffering of Covid-19 in the Nouvel Hopital Civil of Strasbourg, eastern France, Thursday, Oct.22, 2020. (AP Photo: Jean-Francois Badias, File)The novel coronavirus is known to attack primarily the lungs, but how the attack unfolds is still a subject of research. Now, two studies have thrown light on these processes by using the same approach. Scientists have developed…
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