Nothing to sneeze at _ decoding the common cold

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 02/12/2009 - 15:50

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have unraveled the genetic code of the common cold - all 99 known strains of it, to be exact.

But don't expect the feat to lead to a cure for the sniffling any time soon. It turns out that rhinoviruses are even more complicated than researchers originally thought....

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