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Welcome to the Virosphere

Carl Zimmer/Mar 24, 2020/33 views/1 comments

Matter SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the pandemic, belongs to one of 6,828 named species of virus. Hundreds of thousands more species are known, with perhaps trillio...

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Scientists Identify 69 Drugs to Test Against the Coronavirus

Carl Zimmer/Mar 22, 2020/34 views

matter Two dozen of the medicines are already under investigation. Also on the list: chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. Nearly 70 drugs and experimental...

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Coronavirus Treatment: Hundreds of Scientists Scramble to Find One

Carl Zimmer/Mar 17, 2020/30 views/1 comments

matter In an ambitious international collaboration, researchers have “mapped” proteins in the coronavirus and identified 50 drugs to test against it. Working at...