Updates: Zika infection experiment on endometrial organoids
Hi Backers,
It has been rough few months here in Thailand with sudden new spikes in COVID cases. This has delayed some activities in the lab with us working in shifts and limitting the number of people around. Nevertheless, we are still working hard on the project.
Here's an exciting news!
Yes! We are able to infect our endometial organoids with zika virus. We even found that sex hormone levels may influent the virus' infectivity on the organoids. This is quite exciting that we are able to model Zika virus infection on the marternal side in the lab now. This is a good start for us to under stand the whole route of zika transmission from maternal to fetal compartments.
Stay tune for more exciting news.
-TW
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