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Coronavirus: Medications are now in sight

With the help of supercomputers, US researchers have probably found active ingredients that keep the virus at bay. German colleagues, on the other hand, want to paralyze an enzyme that enables the dangerous microorganism to penetrate body cells.

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American researchers have identified 77 substances that inhibit the coronavirus, which bears the scientific name SARS-CoV-2, with the help of supercomputers, but only in simulations. It remains to be seen whether they will deliver what they promise in practice. Colleagues in Göttingen and Berlin, on the other hand, are already targeting a specific drug that has already been approved in Japan for the treatment of inflammation of the pancreas. Direct application is also not possible here. Clinical studies are necessary beforehand. But the chances of fighting the virus are not bad.

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