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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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This highly detailed story not only lists how scientists were able to deconstruct SARS-CoV-2 in record time, but are continuing to explore how to add to their arsenal of weapons against Covid-19. Included in the narrative is Emmeline Blanchard, a biomedical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Blanchard and her lab colleagues reported creating a polymer-encased formulation of a gene-editing enzyme called Cas13a that seeks out and chops up snippets of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Blanchard is a member of the Laboratory of Spatial Biology in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering.
