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Potential New Drug Candidates To Combat ‘Bird Flu’ Found?

Recently, a team of UC San Diego scientists have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new “designer drugs” might be developed to combat this disease. In some cases, the compounds appeared to be equal or stronger inhibitors than currently available anti-flu remedies.

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Rommie Amaro, a postdoctoral fellow in chemistry at UC San Diego, the leader of the researcher said, they have a prior work that captured the nanosecond-by-nanosecond movements of a protein called neuraminidase 1 (or N1), needed by the avian flu virus to spread infection to new cells.

Well, there are so much urgency to find drugs to combat this virus, let’s hope that the results will assist what we are expecting for.

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  1. Elke

    Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens….

    July 11th, 2008 at 3:26 am

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