Loss of Smell in COVID-19 Patients May Arise from Virus Persisting in the Nasal Cavity (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Loss of Smell in COVID-19 Patients May Arise from Virus Persisting in the Nasal Cavity (2 of 3)

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Diagrams comparing the compound eye of the mantis shrimp (left) with the bioinspired imager, which mimics the colored eye cells with layers of stacked photodiodes and filters. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 5, 2021, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Blair at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL; and colleagues was titled, "COVID-19-related anosmia is associated with viral persistence and inflammation in human olfactory epithelium and brain infection in hamsters."

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[Credit: S. Blair <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2021)]

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