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Bright X-Rays Illuminate COVID Treatment Candidates – Optics & Photonics News

DESY’s advanced PETRA III light source enables a massive X-ray diffraction screening of existing drugs, identifying several that could have promise against the…

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DESY researcher Wiebke Ewert points out a drug binding site (green) on an electron-density map of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease. A recent, high-throughput X-ray screening at the DESY PETRA III beamline uncovered several promising drug candidates against the protease.

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