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A Collaboration Against COVID-19

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A team of scientists led by Matthew Disney, Ph.D., of The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute (center), mapped the druggable pockets (violet, green, red, orange, yellow)of a key RNA from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, its frameshift element, and then designed a potential medicine able to prevent viral replication. Collaborators included Arnab Chatterjee of the Skaggs-Calibr Institute for Innovative Medicines (left) and Sumit Chanda, Ph.D., of Scripps Research (right).

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Illustration by Stacey DeLoye, Cryo-EM model of frameshift RNA by Sandra Kovachka, Ph.D.

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