Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock
Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock
China /  Science

Coronavirus may be able to directly infect heart cells, study suggests

  • Researchers in California have established a possible explanation for why some patients develop cardiac complications
  • Virus able to enter lab-grown heart cells, change their gene expressions and multiply

Topic |   Coronavirus pandemic
Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma

Updated: 2:33am, 2 Jul, 2020

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Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock
Scientists have used stem cell technology in their bid to find out why many Covid-19 patients suffer cardiac complications. Photo: Shutterstock
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