Launched on May 23, the eighth video of the series explains what is a virus and how it infects our cells.
Video Script:
Juliana Reis Cortines (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ)
Fabiana Carneiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ)
Gabriela Viçosa (Federal University of Viçosa, UFV)
Project Coordination:
Débora Foguel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ)
Video Production Team:
Lucia Bianconi (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ) – team leader
Amanda Kelen Soares Melo (Medicine student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ)
Evaluation Committee:
Helena B. Nader (Vice-President, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, ABC)
João Batista Calixto (Vice-President for the South Region, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, ABC)
Mauro Teixeira (Vice-President for the Minas Gerais and Midwest Region, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, ABC)
Lucile Winter (Board of Directors, Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science, SBPC)
Watch the Video (in Portuguese):
References:
FIELDS BN, KNIPE DM, HOWLEY PM, et al. Fields Virology, 4 ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven, 2001CUI, J.; LI, F.; SHI, Z. Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses. Nature Reviews Microbiology, v.17 (3), p. 181-192, 2019. doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0118-9
LAN, J.; Ge, J.; Yu, J. et al. Structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike receptor-binding domain bound to the ACE2 receptor. Nature, v.581, p. 215–220, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2180-5
Coronavirus (COVID-19). NIH, 2020. https://www.nih.gov/health-information/coronavirus.
Coronavírus (COVID-19). Ministério da Saúde, 2020. https://coronavirus.saude.gov.br.
