Researchers develop helix-hairpin miniproteins for inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection
Researchers develop helix-hairpin miniproteins for inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection
New Delhi, July 07 th (India Science Wire): The COVID-19 pandemic has entered into the third year.
The scientists and experts the worldwide have toiled to discover the best possible measures to
prevent the pandemic from spreading its tentacles further. Their collective efforts have led to the
discovery of vaccines protecting against the SARS-CoV-2.
However, the emergence of the new strains of the virus is a challenge to the protective effect of
COVID-19 vaccines. This has necessitated alternate means to help fight the virus in a way that it
cannot spread further. The researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, have
developed a new class of artificial peptides (small chains of am...