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posted by CoolHand on Wednesday May 16 2018, @05:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the saving-tissues dept.

Drug target for curing the common cold

UK scientists believe they may have found a way to combat the common cold.

Rather than attacking the virus itself, which comes in hundreds of versions, the treatment targets the human host. It blocks a key protein in the body's cells that cold viruses normally hijack to self-replicate and spread. This should stop any cold virus in its tracks if given early enough, lab studies suggest [DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0039-2] [DX]. Safety trials in people could start within two years.

The Imperial College London researchers are working on making a form of the drug that can be inhaled, to reduce the chance of side-effects. In the lab, it worked within minutes of being applied to human lung cells, targeting a human protein called NMT, Nature Chemistry journal reports.

Related: Vaccine Against the Common Cold may be Achievable


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:44PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:44PM (#680485)

    It's as easy as pulling in a few npm modules and running a script as root.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:39PM (3 children)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:39PM (#680499) Journal

    But God refuses to give us the root password, thus we need to resort to hacking.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:12PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:12PM (#680501) Journal

      All indications are that he lost it ages ago and never had much of a clue WTF he was doing either...

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      • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 16 2018, @11:22PM (1 child)

        by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday May 16 2018, @11:22PM (#680549)

        If you created billions of, well, anything, wouldn't you occasionally throw in a few jokers to see what happens ?

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:48AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:48AM (#680616) Journal

          Not if the things I created were sentient, no.

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