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Mimicking the body’s own defenses to destroy enveloped viruses
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Mimicking the body’s own defenses to destroy enveloped viruses

by American Chemical Society Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Just as bacteria can develop antibiotic resistance, viruses can also evade drug treatments. Developing therapies against these microbes is difficult because viruses often mutate or hide themselves within cells. But by mimicking the way the immune system naturally deals with invaders, researchers reporting in ACS Infectious Diseases have developed a “peptoid” antiviral...