RESEARCHERS in the United States have identified a natural antiviral
protein that stops Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) and certain other
deadly viruses like Ebola, Rift Valley Fever and Nipah, from entering
host cells.
They hope the discovery will help efforts to develop
broad-spectrum antivirals against many of the deadly viruses that the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease lists as “priority
pathogens” for national bio-security purposes.
The team, led by
principal investigator Genhong Cheng, a professor of Microbiology,
Immunology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California - Los
Angeles (UCLA), writes about the discovery in the January issue of the
journal Immunity.
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