New drug could cure nearly any viral infection - a game changer?

[MsFortune]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-drug-viral-infection.html

The drug works by targeting a type of RNA produced only in cells that have been infected by viruses. “In theory, it should work against all viruses,” says Todd Rider, a senior staff scientist in Lincoln Laboratory’s Chemical, Biological, and Nanoscale Technologies Group who invented the new technology.