Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Seeing Coronavirus Replicate in Kidney Cells

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SARS-CoV-2 and Kidney Cells

Seeing Coronavirus Replicate in Kidney Cells

Posted on  by Dr. Francis Collins

You've probably seen pictures of SARS-CoV-2—the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19—that look alarming. But the high-resolution micrograph above paints a rather different picture, using rich pseudo-colors to show how newly assembled viral particles cause infected cells to bulge, or bleb, and then self-destruct.

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