‘Possible Achilles heel’ in the coronavirus

[Tom.G]

The folks at Scripps Institute and at The University of Hong Kong have found an antibody target on SARS-CoV-2 similar to the one on SARS-CoV (the 2002 SARS outbreak). They are looking for recovered COVID-19 volunteers, see bottom of this post or the San Diego Union article.

The full article in Science magazine is here:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/02/science.abb7269.full
(published under Creative Commons License so you can republish freely provided the original work is properly cited)

There is an overview, general public, article here:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...s-research-find-evidence-of-an-anchilles-heel

That San Diego Union article states that researchers are looking for recovered victims of COVID-19 to volunteer blood for antibody screening.

People who wish to participate should contact Scripps Research directly at covid-19survivorstudy@scripps.edu.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[mfb]

They also have some work packages for Folding@Home studying protein structures. That's a way to support their work (and broader medical work) with idle computer power.

Edit: I got one of the COVID-19 work packages ("14613 through 14628 - FEP screening of protease inhibitors in complex (AGG_RL)")

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