By KENTA NOGUCHI/ Staff Writer
February 7, 2022 at 18:45 JST
The brown color shows hamster cells infected with the Delta variant. The picture on the left, taken one day after the infection, shows infected cells around a bronchiole. The other picture, taken three days after the infection, shows the Delta variant has spread to the inside of lung tissues. (Provided by Kei Sato, associate professor of virology at University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science)
The Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus appears less likely to cause serious symptoms because it stops at the “entrance” of lung tissues, a Japanese research team experimenting on hamsters has found. [Read More]
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