E-Mail IMAGE: Marc Allaire, pictured in June 2020, setting up one of the Advanced Light Source's X-ray crystallography beamlines. view more Credit: Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab A team of HIV researchers, cellular biologists, and biophysicists who banded together to support COVID-19 science determined the atomic structure of a coronavirus protein thought to help the pathogen evade and dampen response from human immune cells. The structural map - which is now published in the journal PNAS, but has been open-access for the scientific community since August - has laid the groundwork for new antiviral treatments tailored specifically to SARS-CoV-2, and enabled further investigations into how the newly emerged virus ravages the human body.