Time-lapse shows how anticancer and antiviral drugs get into cells
Monday, April 17, 2017 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
Some of the most effective treatments against viral infections and cancer belong to a class of drugs called nucleoside analogs. These are essentially faulty versions of molecular building blocks that can slip into cells and get incorporated into DNA, effectively throwing a wrench into the machinery that viruses and cancer cells to make copies of themselves.