Acriflavine is traditionally employed as a topical antiseptic, though has more recently been implicated as an antiviral agent at low doses, potentially by stimulating the production of interferon. In ...

Ever since the emergence and rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) in southern China in 2002, scientists have considered coronaviruses to be a potential threat to ...

According to a new study at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, drug acriflavine, used in the 1930s for treating gonorrhea, has now been found beneficial in battling cancer. Researchers ...