Science
A mildly insane idea for disabling the coronavirus – Ars Technica
What happens when you set biotechnologists loose without any practicality limits?
Enlarge/ Diagram of the structure of the virus’ spike protein.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic was first recognized for the threat that it is, researchers scrambled to find anything that might block the virus’ spread. While vaccines have grabbed much of the attention lately, there was also the hope that we could develop a therapy that would block the worst effects of the virus. Most of these have been extremely practical: identify enzymes that are essential for the virus…
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