UQ researchers tackle viruses with pandemic potential

22 Jun 2023
The research team poses for a photo
The research team in front of UQ's cryogenic electron microscope, L-R Dr Ariel Isaacs, Associate Professor Daniel Watterson, Dr Naphak Modhiran and Dr Yu Shang Low.

Researchers have shed light on how a highly infectious virus, that has recently transferred from animals to people, is able to enter human cells.

The University of Queensland’s Dr Ariel Isaacs and Dr Yu Shang Low have uncovered the structure of the fusion protein of Langya virus, which was discovered in people in eastern China in August 2022.

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