Christopher Mores got hooked on studying infectious diseases by chance, after he couldn't get into a class he wanted in college. Now, he's a virologist fighting the coronavirus. 'I've always liked the idea of hunting the thing that wants to hunt us.'
Mores is in talks with biotech companies to help test the effectiveness of eventual vaccine candidates. In addition, his team is working on diagnostic and antibody tests.
Mores says he's always looking for the virus to screw up, to show him something that he needs to defeat it. He gives this pathogen credit: It has proved itself to be a wily adversary. "It's such a tiny piece of nucleic acid. It's infinitesimal compared to the size of the human genome, and yet it can just totally unravel us," he says."Those are the things that really give me pause sometimes. Like, wow, how could this thing with so few genes, and so little room to move, figure us out so well? I don't know. I think that's worth respecting.
"I see [the coronavirus] as an adversary," Mores says."I think it's compelling and it's cool to be in that fight.""We see ourselves trying to confront this global threat in probably the most fragmented way ever," he explains."Every country for itself. And in this country, it's every state for itself, quite clearly. That's all very sad. It's very sad to see.
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