Friday, March 20, 2020

so, somewhat hilariously, the article being run in parallel by a few right-wing british papers seems to have picked out the wrong post in the following twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/proteinimaging

if you scroll down to mar 17th, you see the following post, which links to a spectroscopy lab:

that lab is doing interesting work on trying to understand the geometry of the virus, which will be useful to the chemists that will need to find the right geometry to bind the virus with, if they want to create anti-viral drugs for people that can't develop their own antibodies, with or without the aid of vaccines.

but, the study that the article is about is the next twitter post down, which is a retweet and links to the following study:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.991570v1

as i said: i know the daily mail isn't a very good source. but, it did get me to where i want to get to. let me look at that more closely...