Fascinating look at what the coronavirus does to cells
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I’d like to know how this interacts with differences is symptoms and outcomes among patients.
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@jon-nyc said in Fascinating look at what the coronavirus does to cells:
Kind of a morbid sense of humor/interest here...
“It’s intriguing and a really cool observation,” Goff said. The study’s striking images show that the filopodia contain a lot of virus and that in the lab, inhibiting their growth seemed to reduce viral replication. This strongly suggests that filopodia are somehow amping up the virus’ ability to infect cells, he acknowledged.
“But we don’t yet know what stage [of infection] is affected” by the strange protrusions, he said. “It will be great fun to find out.”
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Stranger Things.
