@Gompertslab

Excited to share our Cystic Fibrosis Lung Stem Cell Consortium work on single cell RNA sequencing of the airways rdcu.be/cj6y4

New Brief Report online now CellStemCell: Direct exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and cigarette smoke increases infection severity and alters the stem cell-derived airway repair response zpr.io/HkYHA

@phil_w888 @UCLAstemcell @PlathLab The WHO concluded that the available evidence suggests that smoking is associated with increased severity of disease and death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Our data directly shows this increased severity and explains why.

@UCLAstemcell @PlathLab Interesting. Why do the researchers think their lab results nullify real world data which suggest that smoking might have a protective effect? (see next tweet) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ad…

Center members Dr. Brigitte Gomperts, Vaithilingaraja Arumugaswami and Kathrin Plath @plathlab were part of a research team that identified how smoking cigarettes can lead to a more severe COVID-19 infection in the airways ucla.in/3fa4ksL

.@uclastemcell researchers using a model of airway tissue created from human stem cells have pinpointed how smoking cigarettes causes more severe infection by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the airways of the lungs. @cellstemcell bit.ly/2ILMwIw