image: MERS coronavirus productively infected human intestinal organoids, a brand-new model that can mimic human intestinal epithelium. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 15, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Zhou at University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China, and colleagues was titled, 'Human intestinal tract serves as an alternative infection route for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Dr. Jie ZHOU and Prof. Kwok-Yung YUEN]