5 FDA-approved antivirals could target COVID-19: study

5 FDA-approved antivirals could target COVID-19: study

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Fierce Biotech
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The virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, cannot grow and spread through the body without the help of a protein called polymerase. Now researchers at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have identified several molecules that interfere with the polymerase reaction—and some of them are already FDA-approved to treat other viruses.