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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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 16 2018, @08:24PM (2 children)
And thus far, I've never had the flu. I don't like the idea of injecting bad stuff into your body, which is basically what they do. But I've never had a flu shot and I've never had the flu. I just don't understand it myself, but I have friends that religiously get the flu shot and then they get the flu. You know, that helps my thinking because I say, why am I doing this? I passed on it.
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Wednesday May 16 2018, @09:11PM (1 child)
Makes me wonder why you use propecia [washingtonpost.com], seeing how it isn't working at all. Unless, of course, you are not taking it for hair loss.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 16 2018, @09:35PM
It's not a shot, it's a pill. Very easy to take -- no needle. And it's working very well. I have all my own hair, as everyone knows.