A Regina-born researcher is on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 in San Francisco. He and his colleagues have been trying to understand which human genes and proteins the virus needs to infect people. Collaborators in San Francisco, New York and Paris have screened "thousands and thousands" of drugs, Krogan said. (QBI, UCSF)They used an approach called protein-protein interaction mapping to identify 332 human proteins that were physically connected to at least one of the 30 SARS-COV-2 proteins. About 60 of those human proteins have at least one drug targeting them, he said.

Source: CBC News January 29, 2021 17:25 UTC