This work was supported by a project from Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2020YFC0840805);Key Project of Beijing University of Chemical Technology(No.X K 1803-06),Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities(No.BUCTRC201917),and a.start-up funding for Dr.Yi-Gang Tong from Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering.
Background:Medicines for the treatment of 2019-novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)infections are urgently needed.However,drug screening using live 2019-nCoV requires high-level biosafety facilities,which imposes an obstacle ...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(3147107,91132711,30970960);a Key Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(15JC1400102,19ZR1416600).
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