Can a Broadly Potent Antiviral Therapy Take Down SARS and MERS? (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Can a Broadly Potent Antiviral Therapy Take Down SARS and MERS? (1 of 2)

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Increasing concentrations of a new experimental compound prevented MERS coronavirus (shown in red) from replicating in cultured human airway cells (blue).

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T.P. Sheahan <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2017)]

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