Prof. Ron Diskin is an expert on deadly viruses at the Department of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the winner of the 2020 Scientific Council Prize for Chemistry. One of the research projects that is being conducted in his lab at the moment is an attempt to develop a drug to treat those who have already been infected by Covid-19 (coronavirus) by creating a synthetic molecule that can bind to the virus, prevent it from infiltrating human cells, and can signal to the immune system that it must be attacked.
Over the past few weeks, scientists uncovered two new strains of the Covid-19 virus, the “British” mutation and the “South African” one, are there others out there?