Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology College of Medicine

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When the virus that causes COVID-19 enters the body, it hijacks cellular proteins and suppresses the human inflammatory response, allowing the virus to spread. University of Florida researchers have discovered…

To allow movement and function, our muscles use tiny “contraction machines” inside of cells. Each on its own is too weak to move even a fingernail, but muscles can move…