New study to find COVID-fighting properties in existing medications: Nearly 50 existing prescription medications already used by Australians will be tested by new research in the fight against COVID’s mutant variants. The new research, led by Associate Professor Anthony Kicic from the Curtin School of Population Health and the Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre at Telethon […]
Griffith University researchers develop direct- acting antiviral therapy to treat COVID-19: An international team of scientists from Menzies Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ) at Griffith University and from City of Hope, a research and treatment centre for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases in the US, has developed an experimental direct-acting antiviral therapy to treat COVID-19. Traditional antivirals […]
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Researchers from the University of Nottingham have discovered a novel antiviral property of a drug that could have major implications in how future epidemics / pandemics – including Covid-19 – are managed. The study, published in Viruses*, shows that thapsigargin is a promising broad‑spectrum antiviral, highly effective against Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2), a common cold coronavirus, respiratory syncytial […]
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