A New Way to Treat the Flu (IMAGE)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

A New Way to Treat the Flu

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Dr. Robert Linhardt's new compound (green spheres) blocks both the N (pink spikes) and H (blue spikes) portion of the flu virus. The compound prevents the infection of the cell and the spread of the flu to other cell like no other compound before.

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Melissa Kemp/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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