Hyderabad, May 28 -- Over the last month and a half, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has established stable cultures of COVID-19 causing Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 from patients' samples.
A team of researchers led by the Virologist in CCMB, Dr. Krishnan H Harshan have isolated infectious viruses from several isolates. The ability to culture the virus in lab enables CCMB to work towards vaccine development and testing potential drugs to fight COVID-19. It also makes them a potential donor of the culture to other authorized centres that can continue growing the virus for their own use.
This virus is known to infect epithelial cells in human respiratory tract. The viruses infect these cells by interacting with receptor pro...