At about the time the world was focusing on the first vaccine trials, in Oxfordshire an intense beam of light was focusing on something else.
Caught in its glare, ten billion times brighter than the sun’s, was a pinhead. On that pinhead was a crystal. The crystal contained an enzyme of coronavirus, along with something else, and in that lay, perhaps, the clue to making Covid-19 something we can live with.
In the blinding light scientists could see that this enzyme, which is crucial to viral reproduction, was locked tightly to its nemesis, a molecular kryptonite.
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