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How the Coronavirus Disguises Itself Before It Attacks
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Posing as a harmless messenger molecule, the coronavirus persuades human cells to do its bidding. Treatments will need to unmask it as an intruder—or even deceive it right back.
Alexandra Marvar
Published
Jul. 28 2020
4:47AM EDT
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