Health
Persistence of ‘abnormal fused cells’ may cause lung damage in Covid patients – Economic Times
The formation of fused cells is due to the viral spike protein, which corona uses to enter the cell.
LONDON: Scientists have analysed organ samples from deceased COVID-19 patients and found extensive lung damage in most cases caused by the persistence of abnormal “fused cells,” an advance which sheds more light on the progression of the disease.
The researchers, including those from King’s College London in the UK, examined lung, heart, liver, and kidney samples of 41 patients who died of COVID-19 to examine the behaviour of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
In the study, published in the journal…
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