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New drug could cure nearly any viral infection
- zellyn 15y agoLet's just kill any cells we think are infected by a virus. What could possibly go wrong? I'm curious especially about things like chickenpox/shingles that stay dormant in nerve cells for years. Kill them!
- NickM 15y agoHere is the question that this immediately raises in my mind: if this drug can cure any viral infection, then why haven't any species evolved to produce the drug in their own bodies?
- mhb 15y agoBecause the universe of good things that you can imagine vastly outnumbers those which were selected for.
- colanderman 15y agoThat's answered in the article. (The processes which produce similar chemicals are themselves blocked by some viruses.)
- colanderman 15y agoAccording to Wikipedia, dsRNA viruses are but one type of viruses, but DRACO claims to work on "nearly all" viruses. Can a biologist shed some light on this issue?