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That's virology, a completely different discipline. Virions lack mitochondria, cell walls, organelles, and an ability to reproduce on their own. There is no "
by 1letterunixname 4y ago
That's virology, a completely different discipline.
Virions lack mitochondria, cell walls, organelles, and an ability to reproduce on their own.
There is no "broad-spectrum" antiviral because of the many more functional configurations that don't share much of a template, so they are freer to mutate more wildly.
The best bet is to rapidly identify emergent vectors and characterize their DNA or RNA to develop mRNA vaccines as with COVID-19.
There will be no universal "cure" to the (un)common cold, only systems for developing and deploying vaccines faster.
- jakobnirsen 4y ago[flagged]
- noduerme 4y agoquery, why did you just start an account with the same name / one letter different from the OP to post this single comment?
- noduerme 4y agoI understand the basic biological difference. The mechanism of action of the protein described in the paper, apparently successfully tested against a wide variety of unrelated viruses in mice, seems to be to unfurl itself and trigger apoptosis only in the presence of single-strand viral RNA of sufficient length. I'm asking why that hasn't been followed up on.
- Slava_Propanei 4y ago[dead]