Two promising new studies suggest that dozens of drugs already approved for use in the United States may prove effective against the new coronavirus.
, sickens hundreds of thousands worldwide, the race is on to find a drug that might help save severely ill patients.
That led his team to conduct computer modeling studies on certain drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to assess their potential in combating the coronavirus. Another promising candidate is the cholesterol-lowering statin rosuvastatin, which is sold under the brand name Crestor. It's already taken by millions of patients around the world to lower theirThe results were published March 19 on a pre-print server called ChemRxiv; they have not yet been subject to peer review.Also, because this study was completely computer-based, their effectiveness against the new coronavirus remains theoretical.
Krogan's group has so far only published their findings on the website bioRxiv, and the findings have been submitted to a medical journal,In this effort, the researchers took a deep dive into the genetic makeup of the novel coronavirus, focusing on key proteins the virus uses to hijack the genetic machinery of a host human cell. The coronavirus uses the cell's protein to then manufacture millions of copies of itself.
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