US scientists have found the first direct evidence that coronavirus could infect the human brain and replicate inside its cellshttps://on.ft.com/37xIUBW
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The research showed once the virus entered neurons in the mini-brains, it was able to increase its number of copies ten-fold in just 3 days https://on.ft.com/37xIUBW pic.twitter.com/QRwbJuNUIV
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If the virus can attack the human brain, it has to get past the blood-brain barrier that shields the organ against many viruses and chemicals and often prevents infections https://on.ft.com/37xIUBW pic.twitter.com/em5oo1x5v4
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‘Whether or not the Sars-Cov-2 virus passes this barrier has yet to be shown,’ says Prof Thomas Hartung, ‘but it is known that severe inflammations make the barrier disintegrate’https://on.ft.com/37xIUBW
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