How does COVID-19 replicate itself? #Razor
Razor • 6m 57s
At this stage of the pandemic, we all know that for SARS-CoV-2 to replicate, it needs us. In fact, like all viruses, it hijacks a key part of our cells - known as ribosomes - to make the proteins needed to copy itself. Neil Cairns talks to Professor Nenad Ban and his team from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology to find out more about the mechanisms which SARS-CoV-2 uses to hijack our ribosomes.
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