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With a relatively minor genetic change, a new easy-to-use treatment developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University appears to stop replication of both flu viruses and the virus that causes Covid-19. The authors of the study, reported in the journal Nature Biotechnology, include Philip Santangelo, professor in the Wallace E. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, and co-authors Emmeline L. Blanchard, Daryll Vanover, Swapnil Subhash Bawage, and Pooja Munnilal Tiwari.