Topics and Expertise: Aplidin

Cancer drug stops SARS-CoV-2 in the lab

Thu Feb 11, 2021
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Aplidin is extracted from Aplidium albicans, a sea squirt found off the coast of Spain.

“If you get a drug that targets a human protein, it would be incredibly hard for the virus to mutate away from being reliant on it,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.