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Artificial receptors made from coronavirus DNA open up new avenues for research

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A team of microbiologists and virologists at Wuhan University, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the University of Washington and Humabs BioMed SA, has found that it is possible to use coronavirus DNA to create receptors that can be added to the membranes of human or animal cell membranes for research efforts.

In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes how they built such receptors from scratch and elucidates possible uses for them.

Prior research has shown that coronavirus infects people by using a spike protein on its surface to bind with a receptor protein on the surface of a host cell. Once binding occurs, the virus can enter the cell through the receptor, leading to infection. Prior research has also shown that in order to protect people in the future from the thousands of coronaviruses that exist in nature, a means must be found to mimic coronaviruses' behavior.

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