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| Permalink View Article Stats (1 comment) MIT's new drug could cure nearly any viral infection Quicklink submitted by Joan Brunwasser (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark) |
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| In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoSOne, the researchers tested their drug against 15 viruses, and found it was effective against all of them — including rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, H1N1 influenza, a stomach virus, a polio virus, dengue fever and several other types of hemorrhagic fever. The drug works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in cells that have been infected by viruses. “In theory, it should work against all viruses,” says Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory’s Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group who invented the new technology. Because the technology is so broad-spectrum, it could potentially also be used to combat outbreaks of new viruses, such as the 2003 SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreak, Rider says. |
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There is already a substance that will do that now.
by Mel Smith on Monday, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:31:39 AM