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

Illustration of multiple viruses in a fluid turbulent environment interacting with human cells. Credit: Computational Biophysics Group—Auburn University

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 features a 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…

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