Study finds remdesivir effective against a key enzyme of coronavirus that causes COVID-19

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Scientists at the University of Alberta have shown that the drug remdesivir is highly effective in stopping the replication mechanism of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, according to new research published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.The paper follows closely on research published by the same lab in late February that demonstrated how the drug worked against the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus, a related corona...