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The COVID protein that signals healthy cells
A study led by Dr. Alexander Rouvinsky, Prof. Ora Schueler- Furman, and Prof. Reuven Wiener of the Faculty of Medicine, together with researchers from Hadassah Ein Kerem, has found that a protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus passes from infected cells and binds to the surface of healthy cells. In this way, it "marks" them, and the immune system-which recognizes the protein as viral- mistakenly attacks even those cells that have not been infected. The study is published in Cell Reports.
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