'Like a key to a lock': how seeing the molecular machinery of the coronavirus will help scientists design a treatment
- Written by Onisha Patel, Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
National Institutes of Health
In the race to develop a treatment for COVID-19, the disease threatening millions of lives around the world, scientists are studying every aspect of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes it.
One vital step is understanding the precise shape and structure of the virus at the molecular level. Knowing the shape lets...