Working with a new pandemic virus

How are researchers stepping up to the challenge?

Dr Thorne and Dr Zuliani-Alvarez in UCL containment level 3 lab

The sudden emergence of SARS-CoV-2 has led to a storm of scientific research, with hundreds of papers being published each week; but what is it actually like working with a completely new virus? How easy is it for researchers in a lab to shift from the viruses they normally work on to SARS-CoV-2? Scientists at University…