India, Nov. 10 -- New antivirals and vaccines could follow the discovery by Australian researchers of strategies used by viruses to control our cells.
Led by Monash University and the University of Melbourne, and published inNatureCommunications, the study reveals how rabies virus manipulates so many cellular processes despite being armed with only a few proteins.
Researchers believe other dangerous viruses like Nipah and Ebola may also work the same way, possibly enabling the development of antivirals or vaccines to block these actions.
Co-senior authorAssociate Professor Greg Moseley, head of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute's (BDI) Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory, said the ability of viruses to "do so much with so little" was ...