SARS and MERS are serious, often deadly, respiratory diseases. Using the ALS, researchers learned how antibodies inhibit the viruses from attaching to host cells, as well as how one antibody mimics its natural counterpart to effectively deactivate the SARS virus’s cell-invasion machinery. https://als.lbl.gov/antibody-uses-mimicry-to-block-sars-coronavirus
January 2019 – July 2022
