https://www.foxnews.com/science/coronavirus-achilles-heel-foundQuote:
The coronavirus pandemic has ravaged the majority of the world, upending nearly every facet of life, as researchers race to find a cure. However, a newly published study suggests researchers may have found what's been described as its "Achilles' heel."
The research shows that a specific portion of the virus could be targeted with vaccines after they mapped a human antibody's interaction with SARS-CoV-2 at "near-atomic-scale resolution," according to a statement from Scripps Research. The antibody was taken from a SARS patient from several years ago, but it reacts to SARS-CoV-2 as well.
"The knowledge of conserved sites like this can aid in structure-based design of vaccines and therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2, and these would also protect against other coronavirusesincluding those that may emerge in the future," said the study's lead author, Dr. Ian Wilson, in a statement.
https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2020/20200403-wilson-covid19.html
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/04/02/science.abb7269
Couldn't think up a better title than the one used for the article so please excuse me if it isn't completely accurate. Didn't see it posted previously, but NSIAP.
As always, beyond the basic explanation, all of the medical and technical stuff is way outside my areas of expertise, so I'll leave discussion of that to the experts.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
