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How can you make drugs for viruses that do not yet exist?

The SARS-CoV-2 virus took the world by surprise, but by one measure it immediately came on schedule. The first SARS virus was discovered in 2003; the related MERS virus hit in 2012. Today we have COVID-19. In other words, novel coronaviruses like once in decades to make successful leaps to …

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Progression report on the coronavirus pandemic

Scientists have crawled to unpick the mechanism that the new coronavirus (green) uses to enter a human cell (orange).Credit: NIAID / National Institutes of Health / Science Photo Library In the space of eight months, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease that causes it, COVID-19, has dominated the work …

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