The Virus equivalent of the Enigma code may have just been broken.
| But now Stockley, a professor at Britain's University of Leeds, thinks he has the upper hand. He has cracked the viral equivalent of the Nazi "Enigma code," which proved key to winning World War II: a genetic message embedded within the virus's RNA that tells it how to assemble new versions of itself during replication. |
| Understanding the code -- and finding a way to disrupt it -- could lead to vastly improved treatments for a whole class of viral infections, not just the common cold but also polio, HIV, hepatitis C and the winter vomiting disease norovirus. |
Scientists just cracked the viral equivalent of the Enigma code - The Washington Post
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