Scientists resurrect an abandoned drug, find it effective against human viruses
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Scientists resurrect an abandoned drug, find it effective against human viruses
'Viruses have proven to be wily foes. Attempts to fend off viruses causing even the common cold or flu have failed, and new viral outbreaks such as dengue, Ebola or Zika continue to elude drugs.
Given these challenges, a group at Stanford is tackling the problem from a different angle: boosting the human body's ability to resist the virus rather than taking on the virus directly. This approach has paid off with a drug that, in cells in a lab dish at least, helps fight two disease-causing viruses and potentially many more. The work was published March 28, 2016 in Nature Chemical Biology.'
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-scientists-resurrect-abandoned-drug-effective.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-scientists-resurrect-abandoned-drug-effective.html
Scientists resurrect an abandoned drug, find it effective against human viruses
'Viruses have proven to be wily foes. Attempts to fend off viruses causing even the common cold or flu have failed, and new viral outbreaks such as dengue, Ebola or Zika continue to elude drugs.
Given these challenges, a group at Stanford is tackling the problem from a different angle: boosting the human body's ability to resist the virus rather than taking on the virus directly. This approach has paid off with a drug that, in cells in a lab dish at least, helps fight two disease-causing viruses and potentially many more. The work was published March 28, 2016 in Nature Chemical Biology.'
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-scientists-resurrect-abandoned-drug-effective.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-03-scientists-resurrect-abandoned-drug-effective.html
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