MIT researchers translated the coronavirus into music offering a new perspective for studying the virus

Markus Buehler

• Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology aren't only looking at the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, through a microscope, they are hearing it in musical form.
• Markus Buehler, material scientist and professor of engineering at MIT, described to Business Insider how he and his lab translated the structure of the coronavirus protein into a musical composition.
• Not only is it a new perspective into observing the virus, but Buehler said future applications of this data could help design antibodies that could counteract human infection with the coronavirus, which causes the respiratory illness COVID-19.
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Amid an unprecedented pandemic, researchers have been rushing to understand the novel coronavirus, which causes the respiratory illness known as COVID-19.

While some are taking the traditional route of visually looking at the virus, dubbed SARS-CoV-2, under a microscope, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are using another sense to study the coronavirus: hearing.

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