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Researchers develop synthetic defective SARS-CoV-2 genome that inhibits viral replication – News-Medical.Net

A shorter genome comprising only a part of the SARS-CoV-2’s RNA genome competes with the normal virus for growth and can potentially prevent viral replication.

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A shorter genome comprising only a part of the SARS-CoV-2’s RNA genome competes with the normal virus for growth and can potentially prevent viral replication.
The devastating impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to significant efforts to curb its transmission. When RNA viruses, like the SARS-CoV-2, replicate there could be versions of the virus that have large deletions in the viral genome,…

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