Researchers claim experimental cancer drug may stop coronavirus

Researchers claim experimental cancer drug may stop coronavirus from spreading throughout the body, according to Dailymail.co.uk

Researchers claim it could block the virus from copying itself and spreading in the body in the same way it freezes tumor growth.

Researchers from the University of Louisville says it has a treatment that could prevent the novel coronavirus (pictured) from spreading throughout the body

The University of Louisville has developed a synthetic DNA piece called 'aptamer' that binds a protein called nucleolin found on the surface of cells and stops diseases from replicating themselves.

Bates said she has been testing the drug in cells but hopes to soon begin clinical trials in humans. 

'Typically developing a drug from scratch takes many, many years and you would have to do a lot of animal testing to try and show it's safe,' she told WSMV.

'Then you test for safety in humans, and then you test if it works in humans. And then the whole process takes years. 

'Because this has already been tested in humans, in cancer patients and we would plan to use it and dose it in a very similar way for patients who have COVID-19 we're hoping we can kind of chop a lot of time off there,' she said.

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