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A team of scientists has engineered a decoy receptor protein that binds to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and blocks infection in human cells. The research found that this decoy receptor is attractive to the virus due to subtle mutations, making it an ideal candidate for neutralizing the virus.
Coverage from 2 institutions
- Decoy receptor neutralizes coronavirus in cell cultures University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau · Aug 4, 2020 · first to report
- Better at binding SARS-CoV-2: A variant of the human receptor for the virus as a powerful decoy American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) · Aug 4, 2020