🧬Brincidofovir inhibits #pseudorabies virus by disrupting viral replication
Screening 2,104 FDA drugs identified brincidofovir, which gave 100% protection in mice challenged with a lethal human-origin PRV strain.

🧬Brincidofovir inhibits #pseudorabies virus by disrupting viral replication
Screening 2,104 FDA drugs identified brincidofovir, which gave 100% protection in mice challenged with a lethal human-origin PRV strain.
🦠💊 Scientists are developing faster ways to make nucleoside analogues—important #Antiviral #drugs used against #infections including #HIV and #hepatitis—cutting a process that once took months to ...
#Antivirals #Medicine #Microsky via @theconversation.com
A new UC Berkeley study shows that rapidly administering post-exposure #antivirals could prevent over 50% of healthcare worker deaths during #Ebola outbreaks, but researchers found that delivery delays and supply disruptions can drop this benefit below 20%.
Decoy Therapeutics Expands Anti-Viral Strategy with FDA Pathway and Non-Dilutive Funding #USA #Cambridge #Decoy_Therapeutics #Antivirals #D-MAVs
🔬 Review in Viruses: Structural virology helps guide the rational development of antivirals, vaccines and antibodies by revealing viral proteins and replication machinery at high resolution.
🦠💊 A promising compound reduced #Enterovirus #D68 by ~1,000-fold in lab tests and protected infected animals by blocking a host-cell pathway #viruses exploit to replicate.
#Infection #Antivirals #Drugs #Biomedical #Microsky via @sciencex.bsky.social
#LassaFever remains a global health challenge.
This review highlights emerging #antivirals, #MonoclonalAntibodies, and combination therapies that could outperform ribavirin and improve stage-specific treatment.