Findings may help close door on COVID-19
E-Mail IMAGE: Jennifer Gribble, a graduate student in the laboratory of Mark Denison, MD, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. view more Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston have discovered what may be the Achilles' heel of the coronavirus, a finding that may help close the door on COVID-19 and possibly head off future pandemics. The coronavirus is an RNA virus that has, in its enzymatic toolkit, a "proofreading" exoribonuclease, called nsp14-ExoN, ...
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