Drug Against Aids Could Be Effective Against Herpesvirus

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Drug Against AIDS Could Be Effective Against Herpesvirus

 

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 23, 2010) — Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) headed by the coordinator of the Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Miquel Coll, have published a new study that demonstrates that raltegravir, the drug approved in 2007 for the treatment of AIDS that is sold by Merck under the name Isentress, cancels the function of an essential protein for the replication of one kind of herpes virus. This study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS), is the first step towards the development of a drug against the entire herpesvirus family.

 

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100923081859.htm