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.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @06:44PM (4 children)
It's as easy as pulling in a few npm modules and running a script as root.
(Score: 3, Funny) by maxwell demon on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:39PM (3 children)
But God refuses to give us the root password, thus we need to resort to hacking.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:12PM (2 children)
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)
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
Not if the things I created were sentient, no.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...