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Trying to understand long covid, scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus.
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Tue, 2022-11-08 00:35 — mike kraft
Scientists made mini brains and infected them with coronavirus. What they saw could explain Long COVID An “excessive number” of synapses were eliminated during the course of the disease, “more than you would expect to see in a normal brain,” the authors wrote. Fortune
Just what is COVID capable of doing to the human brain?
In a new study published in Molecular Psychiatry, researchers from Sweden and a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston tried to find out by creating “brain organoids,” or miniature brains about the size of a pinhead, and infected them with COVID.
What they saw explained a lot: An “excessive number” of synapses, or connections between brain cells that allow them to communicate, were eliminated during the course of the disease—“more than you would expect to see in a normal brain,” the authors wrote in an Oct. 27 article on academic news site The Conversation.
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