Unit 2. Cure for the common cold? Not yet, but possible
Unit 2. Cure for the common cold? Not yet, but possible Curing the common cold, one of medicine's most elusive goals, may now be in the realm of the possible. Researchers said Thursday that they had decoded the genomes of the 99 strains of common cold virus and developed a catalog of its vulnerabilities. "We are now quite certain that we see the Achilles' heel, and that a very effective treatmen..