Ruth Watkinson, Virus Wars exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2013
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Channel: The Royal Society · 2013 · Science & Technology
Ruth is a scientist from the Virus Wars exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2013. Find out more about this exhibit here: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2013/exhibits/virus-wars We have discovered that antibodies target viruses for destruction inside cells. A single antibody stuck to a virus particle 1,000 times its size is enough to prevent infection and label the virus for destruction in the cell's recycling machinery.
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