Australian synchrotron, located southeast of Melbourne, uses intense X rays emitted by electrons that pass by the accelerator to examine key proteins key of SARS-CoV-2 virus, indicated the program’s director Andrew Peele.
According to the expert, the accelerator acts as a microscope and allows researchers building tridimensional maps at the atomic level of proteins to be able to develop medicines for preventing or treating the disease.
“It’s like designing a key for a locker, you need to know the eyes’ dimensions of the locker,” said professor Peele.
He affirmed that researchers around the world sent to Melbourne’s team dozens of proteins’ samples that they think could join the virus to minimize Covid-19 disease or protect people against this coronavirus.
He expressed that by using this technology is possible to know, in five minutes, if a medicine works or not to join a protein of the novel coronavirus.
The project sponsored by the Australian government expects that its technology shorten the regular time of developing effective vaccines.
World scientists are contesting to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 disease, a furious pandemic that has killed thousands and infected over 750,000 people in the world.
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