Compound stymies polyomaviruses in lab tests
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
There is no approved medicine to treat polyomaviruses, which afflict those with weakened immune systems, but scientists have found that a chemical compound called Retro-2 is able to significantly reduce the infectivity and spread of the viruses in lab cell cultures. Now they are working to improve it further.