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Coronavirus: Front-line Fighters
Coronavirus: Singapore labs join global race to learn about virus
Having made a diagnostic test kit, scientists here now hope to develop a possible cure
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Professor Lisa Ng was part of a team at A*Star that developed a kit which could test for the Sars virus in patient blood samples in 2003.
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How does the fight against the spread of a disease begin, if the virus causing it is something that no one has seen or heard of before?
As with most mysteries, it starts with first seeking answers to the most basic of questions: What is it? How does it spread? How severe is the infection it causes?
