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Oct 21, 2020

Breakthrough Shows Neuropilin-1 Drives SARS-CoV-2 Infectivity

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

In a major breakthrough an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has potentially identified what makes SARS-CoV-2 highly infectious and able to spread rapidly in human cells. The findings, published in Science today [20 October] describe how the virus’s ability to infect human cells can be reduced by inhibitors that block a newly discovered interaction between virus and host, demonstrating a potential anti-viral treatment.

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