Coronavirus uses “sinister” tentacles to spread in body

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The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease, uses elongated processes similar to tentacles to spread throughout the body. Scientists from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Freiburg in Germany made this conclusion, TASS reports with reference to the Financial Times newspaper.

"There are long strings that poke holes in other cells, and the virus passes through the tube from cell to cell. Our hypothesis is that these speed up the infection," the publication quotes Professor Nevan Krogan.

The head of the project called the discovered strings "sinister tentacles".

It is noted that medications designed to treat cancer may also be used in the fight against the disease caused by COVID-19, as, according to Krogan, cancers were also all searching for the "Achilles heel of the cell".

"It totally makes sense that there is an overlap in anticancer drugs and an antiviral effect," the professor concluded.

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