Researchers decode cold virus: Effective treatment soon?
Cold and allergy experts at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Maryland have deciphered the genome sequences for all ninety-nine known strains of the common cold virus.
U.S. geneticist Stephen B. Liggett, an asthma expert at the Cardiopulmonary Genomics Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine (Baltimore), and U.S. molecular biologist Ann C. Palmenberg, a cold virologist at the Institute for Molecular Virology at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), headed the team that accomplished this monumental accomplishment.
Liggett, Palmenber, and their team uncovered and identified the parts of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, or the substance that possesses the genetic information of humans along with other living beings) that involve the rhinoviruses that cause the common cold in humans; what is called human rhinoviruses.
