Common Cold Blocked from Replicating by Novel Drug Molecule

Scientists have developed a new class of drug molecule that can completely block the virus that causes the common cold by preventing it from hijacking human cells. Laboratory tests showed that the new molecule prevents multiple strains of the cold virus from replicating in cells, and is also effective against a number of other viruses in the same rhinovirus family, including poliovirus and the virus that causes foot-and-mouth disease. The scientists, headed by Ed Tate, Ph.D., at the departm