mBio: NCoV Affinity For & Replication In Human Epithelial Cells

  Photo Credit NIAID # 6949     Last this morning the online open-access journal mBio will carry a study showing the novel coronavirus (NCoV) recently detected in the Middle East has an affinity for human epithelial cells, the type of cell that line the entrance and lining of our lungs.   Along with this revelation, the study also suggests that immunotherapy, a treatment that has shown promise in the treatment of Hepatitis C, might work against NCoV […]