The research field needs to provide evidence of
how rhinovirus is harmful to spur such a drug's development as well as to understand which patients would benefit most once such a treatment is available so clinicians can know who should be monitored or treated more aggressively, she said.
Not exact matches
A paper published last April in Science detailed
how geneticists sequenced the RNA from 100 strains of
rhinovirus — all the known types of the leading cause of the cold.
For instance, Liu uncovered physical features of
rhinovirus C that help explain why it is resistant to standard antiviral treatments,
how it interacts with cells to cause infection, and why it behaves as a different disease from other members of the enterovirus family.
Once Palmenberg worked out
how to grow
rhinovirus C, she, too, partnered with Rossmann.
While learning
how to culture
rhinovirus C, Palmenberg's research team discovered the virus only infects certain lung cells that express a particular genetic form of a cell - surface molecule called cadherin - related protein 3 (CDHR3).