Researchers have developed gold nanoparticles that can potentially trick viruses into thinking they are invading a human cell and then destroy them -- a finding that would help develop a single drug to combat viruses that cause diseases such as HIV dengue papillomavirus herpes and Ebola all at the same time. Viruses infect human bodies by binding to cells. Once injected in the body these nanoparticles imitate human cells and trick the viruses. When the viruses bind to the nanoparticles to infect them the resulting pressure deforms the virus and opens it rendering it harmless. Unlike other treatments the use
