Reexamining data from his 20 - year - old NASA experiment involving the repeated
freezing and melting of high - purity
materials in microgravity, Martin Glicksman, research professor
in materials science and the Allen Henry Chair at Florida Institute of Technology, working with Kumar Ankit at the School of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona
State University, discovered the way nature guides formation of complex patterns
in materials that crystallize.
But if supplies of these
materials run low, the cell will enter a suspended
state called senescence and cell division will stop,
freezing the advance of the virus, according to new findings from a Duke University research team that appear
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.