Japan researchers create tiny bronchi to develop drug for COVID-19

A team of Japanese researchers has succeeded in creating miniature bronchi -- passageways that conduct air into the lungs -- from human cells that can be used to study the novel coronavirus and help develop drugs for COVID-19, according to a paper recently released online.The researchers at Kyoto University's Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, or CiRA, and other organizations have created bronchial organoids with a diameter of 0.2 millimeter from commercially available cryopreserved human bronchial epithelial cells. They take roughly 10 days to cultivate.They then infected the or…READ FULL ARTICLE