Experimental drug could defeat any virus

[Mysturji]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... virus.html

[Mysturji]

Jesuscillin!

[mistermack]

Can you buy shares in it?
I'm putting all my property on sale now, if you can.

[Feck]

That is some thing to hope for .

[Tero]

Oh great, patent that: a new way to kill viruses in a petri dish

In tests, Rider infected human and mouse cells in Petri dishes with rhinovirus, which causes some forms of the common cold in humans. DRACO prevented the virus from spreading by rapidly killing infected cells without harming healthy ones. Further tests showed that DRACO performs just as well against 14 other viruses, including the one responsible for dengue fever. It also helped boost survival rates in mice given an otherwise lethal dose of the H1N1 flu virus.

It does not give a structure, but it might work as an injectable. He did not inject mice.

[mistermack]

Oh great, patent that: a new way to kill viruses in a petri dish

In tests, Rider infected human and mouse cells in Petri dishes with rhinovirus, which causes some forms of the common cold in humans. DRACO prevented the virus from spreading by rapidly killing infected cells without harming healthy ones. Further tests showed that DRACO performs just as well against 14 other viruses, including the one responsible for dengue fever. It also helped boost survival rates in mice given an otherwise lethal dose of the H1N1 flu virus.

It does not give a structure, but it might work as an injectable. He did not inject mice.

Yeh, the real test is does it harm the patient?

There are loads of things that hurt viruses, it's the collateral damage that's the real problem.

[Mysturji]

I think one of the key words here is "experimental".
It's early days yet, but they have decided to say that the initial results look promising.