Context Matters
Bing Chen
Boston Children's Hospital
Published January 30, 2024
Bing Chen has spent his structural biology career seeking a better look at how HIV particles enter host cells to make people sick. In fact, his research group at Boston Children’s Hospital had leveled up to a new era of study with the full-length HIV fusion protein—not just the most active part that most studies have used for decades.
Then the COVID-19 pandemic was declared. A state-mandated lockdown of schools and non-essential services at universities forced his research group to choose: Shut down the lab and go home, or switch their focus to the pandemic virus, …
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