Working in a Containment Level 3 lab, senior researcher Furkan Guvenc wears full-body protection gear equipped with an air purification system in order to stay safe while performing experiments on the virus (photo by Patrick Budylowski)

U of T researchers seek to understand the novel coronavirus on a ‘deep molecular level’

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SARS-CoV-2 has shut down the world by spreading furiously from one person to another. Now scientists want to trace its steps within cells to stop it.

Supported by the Toronto COVID-19 Action Fund, researchers from across the University of Toronto and its hospital partners, as well as McMaster University, have joined forces to identify all components of the human cellular machinery involved in the life cycle of SARS-CoV-2….

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/u-t-researchers-seek-understand-novel-coronavirus-deep-molecular-level

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