Chinese researchers publish early findings about novel coronavirus
(World News Science)

BEIJING, Jan. 26 -- Chinese researchers have published a series of academic papers on their early findings of the novel coronavirus that has claimed over 50 lives and infected nearly 2,000 people nationwide in China. A paper published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine showed the electron micrographs of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). The virus particles were generally spherical, with some pleomorphism. Their diameters varied from about 60 to 140 nanometers. They had quite distinctive spikes, about 9 to 12 nanometers, which gave them...