Marco Archetti

Associate Professor of Biology

204 Huck Life Sciences Building
University Park, PA 16802
mua972@psu.edu
814-863-4383

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Research Summary

Evolutionary Genetics. Cancer dynamics. Defective interfering viruses. Evolutionary game theory.

Huck Affiliations

Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics

Center for Cellular Dynamics

Center for Mathematical Biology

Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Biosciences

News Articles Featuring Marco Archetti

Jul 07, 2021

Fighting COVID with COVID

What if the COVID-19 virus could be used against itself? Researchers at Penn State have designed a proof-of-concept therapeutic that may be able to do just that. The team designed a synthetic defective SARS-CoV-2 virus that is innocuous but interferes with the real virus’ growth, potentially causing the extinction of both the disease-causing virus and the synthetic virus.