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Researchers hail ‘very encouraging’ potential coronavirus treatment – Somerset County Gazette
Scientists from the UK and Germany say the drug aprotinin could stop Covid-19 entering host cells in the body.
Scientists have hailed a “very encouraging” drug that could be used to fight coronavirus.Researchers from the UK and Germany who identified the potential treatment say it could stop Covid-19 entering host cells in the body.Experts from the University of Kent, working alongside colleagues in Frankfurt and Hanover, found that the approved protease inhibitor aprotinin displayed activity against Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Aprotinin inhibits the entry of Sars-CoV-2 into host cells,…
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