Blocking the coronavirus

Fred Hutch structural biologists developed 3D images of an antibody fished from the blood of an early COVID-19 survivor that efficiently neutralized SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Nicholas Hurlburt, who helped develop the models, narrates this short video showing how that antibody interacts with the notorious spikesof the coronavirus, blocking its ability to bind to a receptor on human cells that otherwise presents a doorway into human cells. Read more: