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How the Novel Coronavirus Changes

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Viruses are tiny, limited to the bare essentials, and whether or not they survive at all is controversial at best. They dock to cells, introduce their genetic material into the cell and then use the cell mechanism to multiply.

The novel coronavirus is no exception. It is a tiny sphere whose surface is covered with a kind of blunt thorns, the so-called spikes, which under the microscope seem like a kind of crown - hence its name. Inside the sphere is - after all - the largest genome known from a single-stranded RNA virus.

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