This means antiviral drugs that block the copying of RNA genomes can potentially help treat COVID-19 patients. These drugs are known as RNA-polymerase inhibitors.

Nineteen months into the pandemic, the need for antiviral drugs targeted against COVID-19 is clear, given the global persistence of the virus, its ability to rapidly mutate into new variants and the ...

Examples of classes of kinase inhibitors with broad-spectrum antiviral activity and the specific steps of the viral life cycle they target (if known) are denoted in colored boxes.

Hruby cited examples of the drug appearing to work to help patients clear out the virus, even after 82 days in the case of one person who developed a resistant strain.

Antiviral drugs also boost the body’s natural immune system, ... For example, a new study found a combination of two specific antivirals may help fight off SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Therefore, the best strategy is to find new antiviral uses from approved drugs. COVID-19 is caused by SARS-CoV-2, and has killed over 1,000,000 people around the world.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio’s latest market research report on the global antiviral drugs market provides an analysis on the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook ...

But some drugs that looked like they had antiviral activity against SARS-CoV-2 are not active against the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study (Science 2021, DOI: 10.1126/science ...

One reason is that the development of these drugs has often been bumpy — or worse. One dramatic example: When an explosion in the Arizona desert blew the top off of a reactant vessel, it held up the ...

In 1987, for example, the cancer drug zidovudine became the first F.D.A.-approved drug against H.I.V. The most obvious drugs to repurpose against the new coronavirus are those that work against ...