645262 external_news 1615497912 1615497912 This highly detailed story not only lists how scientists were able to deconstruct SARS-CoV-2 in record time, but are continuing to explore how to add to their arsenal of weapons against Covid-19. Included in the narrative is Emmeline Blanchard, a biomedical engineer at the Georgia Institute of Technology; Blanchard and her lab colleagues reported creating a polymer-encased formulation of a gene-editing enzyme called Cas13a that seeks out and chops up snippets of SARS-CoV-2 RNA. Blanchard is a member of the Laboratory of Spatial Biology in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. 

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