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LiU researchers are among the first in the world to have grown human nasal tissue from stem cells. It is used to study how different viruses infect the airways.

Researchers at BKV have participated in a large study in which an international research team has shown that IgA antibodies in the nasal mucosa can protect mice against infection with SARS-Cov-2. Their results were published in the journal PNAS.

The current pandemic has brought virus research into the spotlight. Many clinically relevant questions need to be answered. Virologist Lennart Svensson is sure of one thing: this is not the last time we will see a coronavirus outbreak.

Lennart Svensson, professor of molecular virology at Linköping University, has his eye set on testing a method on the new coronavirus that is currently spreading major anxiety around the world.