Physicists test coronavirus particles against temperature, humidity

(University of Utah) One of the biggest unknowns about coronavirus is how changing seasons will affect its spread. Physicists from the University of Utah have received an NSF RAPID grant to study the structure of SARS-COV-2. The physicists will create individual synthetic coronavirus particles without a genome, making the virus incapable of infection. The researchers will test how the structure of the coronavirus withstands changes in humidity and temperature, and under what conditions the virus...