The jigglings and wigglings of atoms reveal key aspects of COVID-19 virulence evolution

Nov 27, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Richard Feynman famously stated, “Everything that living things do can be understood in terms of the jigglings and wigglings of atoms.” This week, Nature Nanotechnology (“Single-molecule force stability of the SARS-CoV-2–ACE2 interface in variants-of-concern”) features a groundbreaking study that sheds new light on the evolution of the coronavirus and its variants of concern by analyzing the behavior of atoms in the proteins at the interface between the virus and humans. The paper is the result of an international collaborative effort among…