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An international research team including Petr Kral, a UIC professor of chemistry, has developed innovative anti-viral nanoparticles with the ability to bind to a range of viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus, herpes simplex virus, Dengue and Lentiviruses, and human papillomavirus. In contrast to other broad-spectrum antivirals, which just restrict viruses from infecting cells, the nanoparticles developed by the team have the ability to destroy viruses.
Kral and his team, which comprised assistant professor of chemistry Lela Vukovic from the University of Texas at El Paso who was an author on the paper, endeavored to develop an innovative anti-viral nanoparticle based on HSPG, yet one that will get attached more tightly to viral particles and kill them simultaneously.
A Swiss National Science Foundation NRP 64 grant, the National Centers of Competence in Research on Bio-Inspired Materials, the University of Turin, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, the Leenards Foundation, National Science Foundation award DMR-1506886, and funding from the University of Texas at El Paso supported the study.
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