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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.254 [SLACK_000468] · slack_pm:msg:02646

Date: 2020-11-09 09:27
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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I don't know if you remember me freaking out when this image of SARS-Cov_2 came out from NIAID - same deal - fusing virions. [shared file(s): image.png]

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2020-11-09 09:19 Robert F. Garry open

Not one of the big 4 glam journals (Nature, Nature Med, Cell or Science) , but getting the cover of JVI for an old school virology paper still feels pretty good. Thanks CViSB et al. for funding.... [shared file(s): image.png]
2020-11-09 09:21 Kristian G. Andersen open

Nice - what is it though? :wink:
2020-11-09 09:25 Robert F. Garry open

two flu virions exposed to a fusogenic/virotoxic peptide fusing with each other.
2020-11-09 09:27 Robert F. Garry

I don't know if you remember me freaking out when this image of SARS-Cov_2 came out from NIAID - same deal - fusing virions. [shared file(s): image.png]
2020-11-09 09:29 Kristian G. Andersen open

What the heck is up with that? Once fused, no longer infectious?
2020-11-09 09:40 Robert F. Garry open

Depends on the concentration. Still infectious for the most part at low concentrations/fewer fusion events.
2020-11-09 09:42 Kristian G. Andersen open

Viruses are weird...
2020-11-09 09:48 Robert F. Garry open

We should start a center around that concept....

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