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What are Spike Proteins? Spike proteins allow viruses to penetrate host cells and cause infection. Viruses must break into our cells to set up an infection. It gains entry using the now notorious spike protein but, typical of viruses, it must hijack our own biology to jimmy the lock. Scientists
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