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Drugs In Development For SARS Could Work For Coronavirus, Chicago Researchers Find
A potential drug target has been identified in a newly mapped protein of the virus.
CHICAGO (CBS) — Drugs that were in development for SARS could be an effective treatment for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), new research finds. The issue now: Those drugs were never brought to market because the SARS outbreak ended and still need to be tested, experts say.
A potential drug target has been identified in a newly mapped protein of the virus. The structure was solved by a team including the University of Chicago (U of C), the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine (UCR).
