Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Experts Develop Drug That Works Against 15 Viruses

Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Labs in Cambridge have discovered a drug that might be able to cure any viral infection – from the common cold to polio, according to an MIT news release. The release cites a paper published late last month in the journal PLoS One from researcher Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory’s Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group, who invented the new technology. Rider’s lab developed a drug that targets a specific kind of RNA that is only produced by cells that have been infected by a virus, and then kills those infected cells.

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