How virtual reality and high-performance scientific computing are helping scientists understand how COVID-19 behaves
On Thursday February 20th, Dr Michael Kuiper stepped into cryo-EM 2019-nCoV spike protein structure of COVID-19. The virus had infiltrated a protein within its host, utilising its uniquely virulent composition to take over the individual’s biological processes, transforming a once healthy cell into a mass of viral particles. “See this? This model shows the same lysine and tyrosine residues as the SARS...
