Advances in SARS-Cov-2 Biology
COVID-19 has had a huge impact on our lives since it was first identified in Wuhan in late 2019. Since then, the massive efforts of the research community have greatly enhanced our understanding of the properties of and the host responses to the virus. To mark the 2021 International Day of Immunology on 29th April, we have compiled a Collection of papers published on SARS-Cov-2 so far in Communications Biology, to be updated as we publish more in this field.
Relevant blog posts from our authors on the Nature Portfolio Community sites
Are primates at risk of COVID-19?
Amanda Melin, University of Calgary
The emergence of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is highly infectious in humans, and the ensuing disease, COVID-19, has caused more than one million deaths. Using comparative genetics and protein-protein interaction modeling we predict many of our closet living relatives are also at risk.
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Cutting months off recombinant vaccine development
Anjali Gowripalan, Australian National University
CRISPR/Cas9 has revolutionized how we edit genomes, taking a simple, "cut and paste" approach to DNA modification. But is hope lost for researchers when one of these processes fails?
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