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COVID Traps Alveoli Cells in a Curious Progenitor State, Squelching Lung Regeneration

Mere weeks into the COVID pandemic, stunning graphics began to appear depicting the path of devastation of SARS-CoV-2 through a human lung. It’s only recently that we’ve come to understand what, exactly, is happening on a cellular level. The new view is thanks to single-cell RNA-sequencing, which analyzes the abundance of messenger RNAs in individual cells. The cells utilize the …
normal lung alveoli indicating examples at1 and at2 cells