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Topics Covered
- Comparison between this new SARS-COV-2 strain and other coronavirus strains
- What information we are currently missing
- Steps in how to obtain required knowledge
- The current knowledge on methods of transmission
- A future view on therapies and vaccination
Biography
Peter Palese is Chair and Professor of Microbiology, and Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His research has focused on studying negative-strand RNA viruses with emphasis on influenza viruses. His laboratory developed the first reverse genetics system for negative-strand RNA viruses. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Palese, P. (2020, March 29). The current understanding of the biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus [Audio file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved June 1, 2023, from https://hstalks.com/bs/4228/.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Peter Palese, Royalty, Receipt of Intellectual Property Rights/Patent Holder: Merck, S & D, GSK, Medi-immune, Avimed
Audio Interview
The current understanding of the biology of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Published on March 29, 2020
20 min
Other Talks in the Series: Interviews on Covid-19
Transcript
0:00
Interviewer: Professor Palese,
thank you very much for taking the time to
record this interview,
I am going to start by asking you quickly:
What are some of the differences
that we know at the moment in
the biology of this new strain
compared to other RNA viruses?'.
Prof. Palese: So we are talking,
obviously, about the virus which causes
COVID which means 'coronavirus
induced disease 2019',
and it is really something
completely new for us,
in the sense that this is a virus
which has appeared in China, and
has marched all over the world
in a very brief period of time.
Now we know about other RNA viruses,
such as the coronaviruses,
meaning viruses which have
as genetic information, RNA.
The prototypes of those viruses
with similar properties,
similar characteristics
are influenza viruses, and
influenza viruses are also RNA viruses and
they also cause respiratory infection and
respiratory disease.
Nevertheless, the SARS-CoV-2,
the one which is responsible for
Covid, for the coronavirus
induced disease 19, is different.
So it's not only apples and oranges,
but it's really very, very different.
What we know about the influenza viruses
can only help us to a certain extent,