https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201020131355.htm

How can we battle these infectious agents that reproduce by hijacking cells and reprogramming them into virus-replicating machines? Science at the molecular level is critical to gaining the upper hand -- research you'll find underway in the laboratory of Professor Juan Perilla at the University of Delaware.

Perilla and his team of graduate and undergraduate students in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry are using supercomputers to simulate the inner workings of Ebola, observing the way molecules move, atom by atom, to carry out their functions. In the team's latest work, they reveal structural features of the virus's coiled protein shell, or nucleocapsid, that may be promising therapeutic targets, more easily destabilized and knocked out by an antiviral treatment.