a day agoStudy: Coronavirus attacks immune system like HIV
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Coronavirus, who causes Covid-19, can kill powerful immune cells that supposedly can kill the virus, scientists have warned. This surprising discovery was made by a team of researchers from Shanghai and New York, and coincides with doctors' observation of Covid-19, Kosovo reports. Coronervirus may have attacked the [...] immune system.
This surprising discovery was made by a team of researchers from Shanghai and New York, and coincides with doctors' observation of Covid-19, Kosovo reports.
Coronervirus, they felt, could attack the human immune system and cause damage similar to that found in HIV patients.
Lou Lou, from Fudan University in Shanghai, and Yang Shibo, from New York Blood Center, joined the living virus, which is officially known as Sars-CoV-2, in the cell lines of T lymphocytes raised in the laboratory.
T cells, also known as T cells, play a key role in identifying and eliminating foreign invaders in the body.
They do this by catching a cell infected by a virus, by annoying a hole in its membrane and injecting toxic chemicals into the cell.
These chemicals then kill the virus and the infected cell and tear them apart.
