anti-body treatment. The study that was published on Thursday has been conducted in collaboration of researchers at Canada’s University of British Columbia - led by Dr Sriram Subramaniam, a professor at the faculty of medicine - and the University of Pittsburgh, US - led by Drs.
Mitko Dimitrov and Wei Li. The study was published as a peer-reviewed article in the journal Nature Communications. According to the article published on the study, researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to reveal the atomic-level structure of the vulnerable spot on the virus’ spike protein, known as an epitope.
This powerful imaging technology uses beams of electrons to visualise the shapes of tissues and cells using ultra-cooling (“cryo") techniques.
The coronavirus is 100,000 times smaller than the size of a pinhead and therefore it cannot be viewed under a regular microscope.