Innovative Research By UC San Diego Professor and Team in Fight Against Coronavirus

UC San Diego Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry  Dr. Rommie Amaro —along with her UC San Diego colleagues and researchers from Maynooth University in Dublin, Ireland, led by Elisa Fadda—have uncovered the atomic makeup of the coronavirus's sugary cloak.

According to Mary Poppins, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. In the case of coronavirus, a cloak of sugar helps the virus infect. This sugary-coating disguise, made of molecules called glycans, tricks the human immune system into identifying the microbe as harmless. The resulting recognition failure keeps the body from generating the defensive antibodies needed to destroy the invading coronavirus.

Learn more in this KPBS Evening Edition interview.

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