Coronavirus Science | Week in review: ‘Long Covid’, second ‘key’… – AlKhaleej Today

LATEST SCIENCE AND RESEARCHREAD | Researchers discover a second key that makes the new coronavirus infectious
With the number of confirmed global SARS-CoV-2 infections nearing 44 million, scientists are still struggling to understand what makes the virus so effective and transmissible.
However, a new study might have the answer: the virus uses a second protein called Neuropilin-1 to make it easier to enter human cells.
The first receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), was discovered…

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