Posted on 04/10/2023 5:45:38 PM PDT by algore
Taking inspiration from the groundbreaking vaccines used during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at UCLA are exploring a new method to treat peanut allergies.
Scientists at the university have developed a “nanoparticle” that delivers mRNA to liver cells in an attempt to “teach” the immune system to tolerate the protein found in peanuts that is responsible for causing allergic reactions in 1 out of every 50 children.
The technology has already been used in mice with success in reducing the seriousness of an allergic reaction, researchers said. The treatment also appeared to stop peanut allergies from developing.
The mRNA treatment, while in its early stages, could open the door for new treatments of allergies. Cu rrently, there’s only one approved treatment for preventing peanut allergies and it can take months to work.
The nanoparticle is so small that it’s measured in billionths of a meter. The liver was chosen as the site of the mRNA delivery, because the organ is regularly “bombarded with foreign substances” and is full of cells that are responsible for training the immune system.
André Nel, director of research at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA and a contributing author in the study, said this research appears to be the very first of its kind to use mRNA as a method of treating allergic disease.
“We’ve shown that our platform can work to calm peanut allergies, and we believe it may be able to do the same for other allergens, in food and drugs, as well as autoimmune conditions,”
Nel hopes that this new technology could advance to clinical trials in as soon as three years and his lab is getting ready to regulate the process required.
He also hopes that this new method could lead to breakthroughs in the treatment of other allergies and autoimmune disorders.
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Seems like it would work, if you die you certainly don’t have allergy problems anymore
It is quite likely that peanut allergies are caused by vaccines.
I’m calling bullshit.
Likely not bullshit, because the mRNA injections are Gene Therapy. There i said it, the injections are not and never were vaccines.
I foresee more mystery pediatric hepatitis cases on the horizon...
You are a M.D.?
Great now we will all become hyper-allergic to nuts.
They’re really bent on getting this mRNA shit into every body they can.
I agree. Growing up in the 70’s, I never met a single person with a peanut allergy. Someone recently suggested starting with small servings of boiled peanuts and gradually increasing serving size to acclimate the body and overcome the allergy. I’d love to know if that works as my grandson is allergic to peanuts and his parents won’t try the cures I learn from the internet. ;)
I have a 28 year old son who is deathly allergic to nuts. He can’t get it on his skin without collapsing unable to breathe.
When he was a baby I gave him a taste of peanut butter and he screamed in pain. I had never heard of peanut allergies. I figured he would get over it. But, alas, we have had too many near death experiences with him.
DVM
I treat patients of many species, but usually of two genders. None are verbal communicators.
MD’s treat one nominal species of now many genders, and all are verbal complainers.
They have all been wonderful,,,brothers and sisters.
Have two BC's currently....They are half brothers. They are great dogs!!!
I need dogs and horses and cattle....help at times
I was calling bullshit on the article.
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