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Queensland researchers make COVID-19 drug breakthrough that could protect unvaccinated people against coronavirus – 7NEWS.com.au
The Brisbane team has created two new rapidly-acting drugs that could also prevent symptoms in those who already have the virus.
Australian researchers have created two new drugs that could protect unvaccinated people from COVID-19 and prevent symptoms in those who already have the virus.
A team from Brisbanes QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, led by Professor Subha Rao, has developed the two peptide-based drugs.
The first drug cloaks the ACE2 receptor protein on human cells, which the virus binds to before penetrating cells.
The second drug blocks the virus from hijacking that receptor from the inside, and using…
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