Cytodyn Inc (CYDY)

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EIDD-2801 The New Claimed Rage - but CYDY has a leg up in the race
with testing already initiated


Collaborators from the University of North Carolina at (UNC-) Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and the Emory Institute for Drug Development (EIDD), all US, tested EIDD-2801 in both mice and cultured human lung cells infected with the various coronaviruses. Their findings were published in Science Translational Medicine.

EIDD-2801 is similar to remdesivir; both drugs work by mimicking ribonucleosides – the primary components of RNA molecules – causing debilitating errors when the drugs are incorporated into viral RNA during replication, preventing the spread of the virus. However, scientists suggest EIDD-2801 may have some advantages.