New paper shows omicron relies more on sugars for infection Omicron and its sublineages remain a major public health concern owing to their high infectivity and antibody evasion. Perhaps the most challenging is that the sensitivity of some of the available rapid tests have been reduced against Omicron, compared to previous variants, forcing people to… Continue reading New Paper – How Omicron Finds the Sweet Spot
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COVID-19 Sensing Paper in ACS Sensors
A new paper from the Freeman Lab, titled “Catching COVID: Engineering Peptide-Modified Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensors for SARS-CoV-2”, is due to be published in the upcoming issue of ACS Sensors. The paper was written in collaboration with Zachary Schultz and Taylor Payne of Ohio State University, and was funded by the Reserach Corporation for Scientific… Continue reading COVID-19 Sensing Paper in ACS Sensors
Molecular approaches to detect and mitigate COVID-19
Dr. Ronit Freeman’s proposals for the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s COVID-19 Initiative, and her subsequent awards to research ways to capture and disable coronavirus spikes, have been featured on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences website. You can read the article here. Dr Freeman will be collaborating with Rommie Amaro, professor of chemistry… Continue reading Molecular approaches to detect and mitigate COVID-19
Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19
The Freeman Lab is happy to announce that we have received funding via two Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) grants to investigate the COVID-19 virus. The first of these grants, titled “Pan-Covid-19 MultiValent Binders (MVBs) to Block Virus Entry”, was submitted with Rommie Amaro of the University of California and Carlos Simmerling of Stony… Continue reading Freeman Lab awarded 2 RCSA grants to research COVID-19