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Coronavirus: New study reveals COVID-19 slices up heart cells into fragments – Newshub
It would make it “impossible” for the heart muscle cells to beat properly, according to an expert.
A new study into how COVID-19 affects organs in the body has revealed the “completely abnormal” way the virus damages heart cells.
The findings by scientists at Gladstone Institute was published in bioRXiv on August 25, but is yet to be peer-reviewed.
Researchers created three types of heart cells in lab dishes and then exposed them to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Of the three types of cells, SARS-CoV-2 could only infect cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells), which contain muscl…
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