Scientists will discover how to weaken coronavirus
An interdisciplinary group of scientists from TSU, Moscow State University, Higher School of Economics, Saratov State University, Siberian State Medical University, and the Institute of the Problems of Laser and Information Technologies (IPLIT) has launched a large-scale project that will provide new fundamental data on the coronavirus. In the course of the research, experts will identify the factors that determine the virus’s high transmissibility. The goal is to create effective ways to protect humanity from Covid-19. Along with this, they plan to investigate the possibility of more operative diagnostics of viral diseases compared to laboratory methods using biophotonics and artificial intelligence methods.
- Currently, about 40 species from the group of coronaviruses are known, and they all have their characteristics. For example, MERS-CoV, which caused Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2012, had a very high mortality rate of about 35%. However, its ability to transmit from person to person was significantly lower than that of Covid-19, so then the outbreak had a local character, - explains Yury Kistenev, head of the Laboratory of Biophotonics, executive director of the TSU Institute of Biomedicine. - The coronavirus that we are dealing with now is showing increased contagiousness. One of the main tasks of the new project is to obtain fundamental knowledge about the characteristics of the transmission of the virus. So far, there is only fragmentary data about this.
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