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Scent-Sensing Cells Have a Better Way to Fight Flu – Mirage News
Fourteen days after infection with an influenza B virus, cells of a mouse nose are colored to show any remaining infection. Red cells were infected but…
DURHAM, N.C. – Influenza researchers have long focused most of their efforts on the epithelial cells lining the lungs because these are the cells that become infected and killed while producing new copies of the virus.
But other cells lining the upper airways are exposed to viruses in the same amounts and somehow aren’t as likely to be killed by infection. Is it because of something the virus does, or something those cells do?
“So you’re standing on the bus, somebody sneezes, and you breathe s…
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