Podcast: Treating chikungunya using tamarind seed protein

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 Optimized-Shailly TomarShailly Tomar of IIT Roorkee explains how her team found a protein in tamarind seeds that binds to NAG sugar molecule on chikungunya virus and reduces infectivity by 64% and RNA levels inside infected cells by nearly 45%.

Published by Prasad Ravindranath

Science Editor with @The_Hindu, Chennai, India. DO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME AT prasad.thehindu@gmail.com IF YOU HAVE SOME INTERESTING RESULTS THAT CAN BE PUBLISHED IN THE HINDU NEWSPAPER AND ALSO IN MY BLOG. You can also reach me on twitter @RPrasad12 and Facebook /prasad.ravindranath. I write on health, medicine, environment, and technology.

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