Some of the deadliest diseases afflicting mankind today are of viral origin, recently a headway was made by a young scientist to understand viral invasion, which if successfully exploited could lead to effective pharmaceutical drugs to fight viral diseases.
Naama Elefant, a researcher at the Hebrew University analyzed the function of microRNAs that led to the discovery.
Viruses are responsible for some of the most debilitating diseases known to mankind, such as avian influenza, AIDS, Ebola, SARS, common cold, chickenpox, influenza, diarrhea, etc. While some of these diseases are taken care of quite well by the immune system viz. common cold, diarrhea, against others such as the HIV, the human body is quite helpless. Although anti-viral drugs such as the HIV drugs do help in slowing down the infection but the current pharmaceutical drugs are nowhere near to completely treat the infection.
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