UCLA Scientists Use Mini-Organ Models to Uncover Hantavirus Secrets, Point to Treatments
August 27, 2025
August 27, 2025
LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 27 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release:
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UCLA scientists use mini-organ models to uncover hantavirus secrets, point to treatments
UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses -- rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents -- infect the body. Hantaviruses were thrust into the national spotlight earlier this y . . .
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UCLA scientists use mini-organ models to uncover hantavirus secrets, point to treatments
UCLA researchers have created miniature stem cell-based organoid models of human lungs, hearts and brains to study how hantaviruses -- rare but often deadly viruses spread by rodents -- infect the body. Hantaviruses were thrust into the national spotlight earlier this y . . .