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Drugs screen launched

Published on
February 7, 2003
Last updated
May 22, 2015

Oxford University has launched a project to develop drugs to combat the smallpox virus after it has infected its host. As in the acclaimed cancer screensaver project, idle time on 2 million PCs across the world will be used to screen many millions of substances as potential constituents of drugs.

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