Biotech Values

[DewDiligence]

Re: Derek Lowe write-up on Molnupiravir

Some readers may be wondering what this excerpt means:

That’s the effect of NHC and of molnupiravir. What about the bad side? Well, auxh nucleosides can also be taken up by many other enzymes, including those that handle our own nucleic acids, so some of them are mutagenic.

I’ve been following antiviral companies for the past 15 years, but I had never hard of an “auxh nucleoside.” It turns out that “auxh” is a typo for “such,” where the first and third letters are displaced one key to the left on a standard QUERTY keyboard!