Lab-grown beating heart cells used to identify potential drug to prevent COVID-19-related heart damage
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5 August 2021Lab-grown beating heart cells used to identify potential drug to prevent COVID-19-related heart damage
Cambridge scientists have grown beating heart cells in the lab and shown how they are vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infection. In a study published in Communications Biology, they used this system to show that an experimental peptide drug called DX600 can prevent the virus entering the heart cells.
