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The new coronavirus can infect brain cells, study finds – Live Science
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can sometimes hijack brain cells, using the cells’ internal machinery to copy itself, according to a new study.
The research, posted Sept. 8 to the preprint database bioRxiv
, has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, but it provides evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can directly infect brain cells called neurons. Although the coronavirus has been linked to various forms of brain damage, from deadly inflammation
to brain diseases known as encephalopat…
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