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A large number of people are currently contracting COVID-19. Fortunately, most of them are experiencing only mild symptoms, largely thanks to the high vaccination rate. However, in some individuals the disease takes a much more severe cause and our understanding about the underlying reasons is still insufficient. The human genome may hold a key to…

A Berlin-based research group led by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has succeeded in simulating SARS-CoV-2 infection in human lungs and has gained important insights into the mechanism of infection. Using living lung samples, they were able to show that the virus is capable of directly infecting the cells of the human alveoli to only a very…