Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Lab Develop Technology That May Cure the Common Cold, Influenza and Other Ailments

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(ENEWSPF)–August 11, 2011.  Most bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics such as penicillin, discovered decades ago. However, such drugs are useless against viral infections, including influenza, the common cold, and deadly hemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola.

Now, in a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus,…