New Drug Has Potential To Turn COVID-19 Virus Against Itself

A new drug designed by scientists at Scripps Research can turn the COVID-19 virus into a harbinger of its own doom.

The drug, NMT5, described in Nature Chemical Biology, coats SARS-CoV-2 with chemicals that can temporarily alter the human ACE2 receptor—the molecule the virus normally latches onto to infect cells. That means...