Associate Professor Stuart Turville from UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute leads a team that has developed genetically “supercharged” cells to quickly understand the dynamics of different variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

To respond to COVID-19 effectively, scientists need to be able to understand complex information about the virus as quickly as possible. A/Prof Turville calls these cells ‘canaries in the coal mine’ – because they allow his team to describe a variant or strain of the virus quicker than any other method.

Find out more on the UNSW Newsroom:
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/supercharged-cells-help-scientists-analyse-sars-cov-2-variants-faster

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