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Since the end of 2019, the novel coronavirus pandemic has brought huge economic losses and serious disasters to all mankind. The novel coronavirus pandemic could cost the global economy 82 trillion in five years in a "recession" scenario, according to the Risk Research Center at Cambridge Judges Business School. More than 230 million people have been infected with COVID-19 and more than 4 million have died from it so far.

There are also studies here showing that multiple SARS-CoV-2 strains with different genome sequences are spreading and evolving. The existing vaccines have inevitable lag. This also further indicates that conventional coping styles inevitably have certain defects in the face of virus invasion. Then finding a preventive strategy against the virus becomes crucial......

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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a human coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)[1]. The spike protein on the surface of the novel coronavirus binds to the human cell surface receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), and enters the cells through endocytosis [2-4]. The virus dehulls after entering the cytoplasm and releases the genome. Virus RNA binds to the ribosomes of host cells and translates into proteins, which are processed and then assembled into viruses.

CRISPR/Cas13d is a RNA-guided CRISPR system targeting ssRNA. The system has been used to target viral sequences in human cells[5,6]. At the same time, compared with other Cas13 proteins, Cas13d has the advantages of small size (967 amino acids), high specificity and strong catalytic activity. Its RNA-targeted ribonuclease activity is independent of specific adjacent sequences, which meets the requirements of rapid development of gRNA[7-9].

LZU-CHINA intends to screen the crRNA pool for SARS-CoV-2 and its conserved sequence by bioinformatics, construct CRISPR-Cas13d system, and use specific crRNA-mediated Cas13 protein to reduce the coding RNA and protein expression of ACE2, thus developing a preventive antiviral strategy in human cells. At the same time, we will also verify the laboratory effects of CRISPR-Cas13d system through in vitro biochemical experiments and cytological experiments. In order to achieve the purpose of providing preventive protection against SARS-CoV-2.

On May 25, 2020, the Western Ecological Security Innovation Center of Lanzhou University officially released the Global COVID-19 Pandemic Forecasting System, which plans to update the results every 10 days. Huang Jianping, director, said it was the world's first global pandemic forecasting system to advise on the global COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies have shown that ambient temperature and atmospheric NO2 content are two important indicators for predicting the development of the novel coronavirus pandemic. They comprehensively considered the impact of key information such as environmental temperature, humidity, population density, pandemic prevention, control measures, and medical conditions on the spread of pandemics, as well as the complex situation of the global spread of pandemics. They respectively modeled more than 180 countries, and after repeated tests, finally formed the “global COVID-19 pandemic prediction system ”.

So, what should we do for the novel coronavirus pneumonia ?

LZU-CHINA is determined to contribute to the fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia.

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