How Scientists Around the Country are Using the APS to Fight COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global health emergency, and the response from the scientific community has been similarly global. Scientists from every corner of the world have worked tirelessly to understand more about the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease, in order to combat it more effectively.

Argonne Researchers Continue Efforts in the Battle Against COVID-19

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Argonne National Laboratory is helping in the fight against COVID-19 in a number of research products, which includes helping the Federal Protective Service (FPS), their co-recipient in the 2020 'ASTORS' Awards Program, to track and map areas affected by COVID-19 by using the Modified Infrastructure Survey Tool (MIST). 

Using Protein Structural Information to Understand the Mechanism of an Essential Enzyme for Fighting Tuberculosis

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Using Protein Structural Information to Understand the Mechanism of an Essential Enzyme for Fighting Tuberculosis:  Antibiotic resistance is a global problem that many scientists are racing to solve. Researchers using the APS gained important insights into understanding the structure and mechanism of a critical enzyme involved in protein synthesis in tuberculosis, work that will form the basis of structure-based drug design efforts aimed at exploiting the unique features of this enzyme in developing new pharmaceuticals.