WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. teenager from Texas has won the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge and a 25,000-U.S.-dollar-prize for a discovery that could provide a potential therapy to COVID-19.
The winning invention of Anika Chebrolu, a 14-year-old girl, uses in-silico methodology to discover a lead molecule that can selectively bind to the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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