Repurposing drugs and networks can help find outbreak treatments against the clock

Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - 10:50 in Health & Medicine

by Ian Le Guillou A vaccine is likely to take at least a year. A new drug could be a decade away. Even with the world’s resources focused, treatments against a new disease are difficult to create from scratch. However, repurposing existing drugs for other conditions could provide a much-needed shortcut. The average drug takes 12 […]

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