Published in Nature Communications, the study, conducted on an animal model, affirms that SARS-CoV-2 can infect human neurons in vitro and travel within axons, the projections of nerve cells responsible for information transmission.
Just like how the hairs on your arm can feel a soft breeze blowing or a spider crawling on you, whiskers on a tiger’s face and chin give it messages about what is going on around him or her.