Some People Are Immune to All Viruses. Scientists Now Want To Replicate This Ability for a Universal Antiviral

Some People Are Immune to All Viruses. Scientists Now Want To Replicate This Ability for a Universal Antiviral

Mutatation causes immunity to all viruses and researchers now want to build a treatment from it.

Revolutionary antiviral discovery could protect humanity from all future pandemics

For a small group of people scattered across the world, living with a rare immune condition comes with an unexpected twist: they appear to be naturally shielded from almost every virus known to infect humans. The discovery, made by Columbia University immunologist Dusan Bogunovic about 15 years ago, has now sparked a bold new idea—what if that same power could be given to anyone, even temporarily, to fend off deadly infections? When Bogunovic fi…