CCMB Cultures SARS-CoV-2
The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, has established stable cultures of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from patients’ samples.
- The novel coronavirus enters the human body by binding with the ACE-2 (angiotensin converting enzyme 2) receptor on the cell surface of human epithelial cells in the respiratory tract, causing respiratory disease in the infected patient.
- Human primary epithelial cells- key to culturing viruses continuously- do not grow for many generations in labs, whereas the labs that are culturing the virus need an ‘immortal’ cell line. Therefore, CCMB and other labs are growing the virus through an ‘immortal’ cell line ....
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