Non-Animal Methods to Study COVID-19
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FROM AAVS American Anti-Vivisection Society
May 2020

A group of researchers in Canada are working together to create a model made of human cells to study COVID-19.

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A group of researchers in Canada are working together to create a model made of human cells that they hope will eventually lead to a treatment for COVID-19, without the use of animals. The key to understanding how the virus can spread throughout the body so quickly is to examine its effects soon after infection, but before symptoms are experienced.

Researchers say this would not be possible in humans since a patient might be infected for two weeks before symptoms appear.

However, by creating mini models that mimic the movement of human cells in the nose, mouth, eyes, and lungs, and then exposing them to COVID-19, researchers will be able to see how the virus works, in real time, as it invades the body.


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