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Hungarian experts to start testing anti-coronavirus substances
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The coronavirus research group of the University of Pécs can find the virus, can analyse its pathogenicity, and they even know its molecular constitution. The university is going to start testing the potential substances this week that are able to cure the coronavirus.
The virologist team led by Ferenc Jakab in the János Széntágothai Research Centre of the University of Pécs developed a routine process to isolate coronavirus in different cells of the human body thanks to samples taken from patients who became infected in the Central European region, Szeretlek Magyarorszag reported. Therefore, the Hungarian researchers have a chance to develop a vaccine able to combat the new-type coronavirus and
will probably be able to find new cures for the patients.
Based on the announcement of the university, this new and promising step in the fight against the virus is the result of a decision enabling the researchers of the university to examine samples from local patients. Thanks to that, from March 16 on, laboratories from many parts of the country can analyse such samples.
The molecular structure data of SARS-Co-V2 (the correct term for the current virus) was released on March 4th by a Chinese researcher Wiang Zhou and made available worldwide. Thus it is not just the University of Pécs that has this data. Credit should be given where it is due.