• Question: what can kill cronavirous

    Asked by anon-238832 to binuraj on 12 Mar 2020.
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      Binuraj Menon answered on 12 Mar 2020:

      Hi race389gas,
      Virus infections are very difficult to cure.Viruses live and replicate inside of a human cell, they cannot live outside of this environment. Viruses insert their genetic material into a human cell’s DNA in order to reproduce. Antibiotics cannot kill viruses because bacteria and viruses have different mechanisms and machinery to survive and replicate. one way to kill virus is to target its replication mechanism or the mechanism by which it adhere to our cells. I have seen some scientists has put an online platform to design small molecule or peptide targets (computationally design) which can destroy or attach to coronavirus. The link below. Give it a try if you are interested
      https://fold.it/

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