What makes SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, such a threat?: Boston Children’s study

A new study, led by Jose Ordovas-Montanes, PhD at Boston Children's Hospital and Alex K. Shalek, PhD at MIT, pinpoints the likely cell types the virus infects. Unexpectedly, it also shows that one of the body's main defenses against viral infections may actually help the virus infect those very cells. Findings were published April 21 by the journal Cell. The peer-reviewed ["]

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