CAS Scientists Find New Anti-SARS Compounds

Scientists from the CAS Shang-hai Institute of MateriaMedica (SIMM) and the Na-tional Center for Drug Screening(NCDS) have identified severalnovel compounds that could be po-tential weapons to combat the SARSepidemic. This was announced at anews briefing held by the CASShanghai Institutes for BiologicalSciences on June 19 in Shanghai.The scientists found that a singlenatural compound dubbed ZZ-1could effectively inhibit the replica-tion of SARS virus in vitro. Whenthe compound w…

CAS Scientists Find New Anti-SARS Compounds

Scientists from the CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica (SIMM) and the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS) have identified several novel compounds that could be potential weapons to combat the SARS epidemic. This was announced at a news briefing held by the CAS Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences on June 19 in Shanghai.