The Key to Curing the Common Cold Could Lurk Within Our Own Cells
17th December 2019
Sniffle season is here, but so is a potential solution—and we don’t mean chicken soup. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California San Francisco have identified a specific protein inside human cells that, when disabled, can stop some of the peskiest viruses in their tracks. The researchers hope that their results, published this week in Nature, may pave the way for a new era in the fight against rhinoviruses (collectively known as “the common cold”) and more serious enteroviruses like polio and those that cause brain inflammation or encephalitis.