When Paul Tafforeau saw his first experimental scans of a COVID-19 victim’s lung, he thought he had failed. A paleontologist by training, Tafforeau had been laboring with a team strewn across Europe for months to turn a particle accelerator in the French Alps into a revolutionary medical scanning tool.
“What is perhaps a surprise to most people is we’ve been studying the heart anatomically since hundreds of years ago,” says UCL cardiac anatomist Andrew Cook, “but there isn’t a consensus about the normal structure of the heart, particularly the muscle cells, and how it changes as the heart beats.”UCL senior postdoctoral fellow Claire Walsh, one of HiP-CT’s co-creators, monitors the control cabin of BM05, the ESRF facility where the Human Organ Atlas’s first scans were carried out.
Using this technique, Ackermann and Jonigk compared the tissues of people who hadn’t died of COVID-19 with those who had. They immediately saw that among COVID-19 victims, the smallest blood vessels in the lungs were distorted and reshaped. These landmark results,, showed that COVID-19 wasn’t strictly a respiratory disease but a vascular one—one that could affect organs across the entire body.
“At the end of the day, [the] lung is oxygen in, carbon dioxide out—but for that, it has thousands and thousands of miles of blood vessels and capillaries that are so finely and nicely arranged … it’s almost a miracle,” says Jonigk, the founding principal investigator of the German Center of Lung Research.
Enter Tafforeau, whose work at the ESRF has stretched the limits of what synchrotron scans can see. His impressive bag of tricks previously let scientists peer inside dinosaur eggs and virtually unwrap mummies, and almost immediately, Tafforeau confirmed that the synchrotron could, in theory, make a good scan of an entire lung lobe. But actually scanning a whole human organ posed a grand challenge.
Lee and his team at UCL rushed to devise containers that could withstand the synchrotron’s x-rays but also let through as many waves as possible. Lee also juggled the project’s overall organization—such as the finer points of shipping human organs between Germany and France—and recruited Walsh, who specializes in huge biomedical datasets, to help work out how to analyze the scans.
Take a look. Stunning image of the damage Covid-19 has done to a lung.
Nah.... I want to see the difference between smoker & non-smoker against Covid. I heard smoker have advantage against Covid. 😜
Public health crises beyond imagination coming down the tracks..
Covid dick 😬😱
Can...can we have the technology to cure cancer already?
Une partie de ce que vous dites est vrai,mais la majorité de ce qui reste de votre interminable exposé, est de la fiction.🌬😶
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Wonder if they can do this to see what happens to the body after vaccines are taken?
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Hey National Geographic, given almost 6 million people are dead and DrTedros has acknowledged the WHO investigation was inadequate, the Wuhan Institute of Virology refused to share its records, maybe your science journalists should avoid this childish in-group signalling?
Has anyone done the same research on people who have had the jab? I would not be surprised if the result was the same or worse, as the altered spike protein-coding RNA has been shown to, in itself, damage the immune system.
It’s just brutal…I have it severe for the second time vaccinated. You have to sleep sitting up and it feels like you are in cardiac arrest 247.
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HiP-CT scans show that in severe COVID-19 cases, the lungs’ blood vessels are severely damaged: Here, airspaces are colored with cyan, open blood vessels are colored in red, and blocked, damaged blood vessels are colored in yellow
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