New Class Of Molecular Compounds Kills Influenza Virus

Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 17:40 in Health & Medicine

An international group of scientists has discovered a new class of molecular compounds capable of killing the influenza virus.  You learned this from your parents; too much even of a good thing can be a killer and that same idea has led to manipulating an enzyme that is key to how influenza replicates and spreads. The  newly discovered compounds interrupt the enzyme neuraminidase's facilitation of influenza's spread. read more

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