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Scientists develop human lung organoids to study SARS-CoV-2 infection – News-Medical.Net
Now, a new study published on the preprint server bioRxiv in July 2020 reports the development of a human distal lung culture system that can be functionally tested. This will help not only to understand how this infection produces disease but also to test th…
The current COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is known to target primarily the distal lung, including the terminal bronchioles and alveoli, which are the sites of essential gas exchange in the human body.
In a significant minority of patients, this results in critical pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). However, the mechanism by which this occurs is far from clear, and one major contributing factor to this knowledge ga…
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