Covalent fragments vs chikungunya nsP2

Perhaps because it sounds like “chicken,” when I first heard of chikungunya I thought it was a joke. But there’s nothing funny about a disease whose name comes from a word meaning “to become contorted,” referring to contortion caused by pain, which can last for months. The mosquito-borne alphavirus was first identified in 1952 in West Africa, introduced to the Americas in 2013, and is now spreading rapidly worldwide. There is no specific treatment. In three recent papers, a large group of researchers...