Posted on 04/03/2020 9:27:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Distributed Bio co-founder and CEO Dr. Jacob Glanville joined "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Friday to talk about his company's laboratory engineering a therapeutic antibody to combat the coronavirus.
"So what we have done is we've engineered neutralizing antibodies that go and block the virus. The coronavirus, if you were to zoom in on it, you would see a series, a ring of spikes, and it uses those spikes to invade human cells," Glanville said. "We've identified a series of super potent antibodies that block those spikes and therefore make the virus no longer infectious."
Glanville explained the power of antibodies, saying it helped during the Ebola epidemic.
"This is the thing that turned the tide against Ebola. The Ebola used to be a death sentence, about 50 percent mortality rate," Glanville said. "And then once a good antibody neutralizing solution was made, then I think 94 percent of people can walk away."
"So that transformed Ebola from a dangerous crisis to a manageable treatment," Glanville added.
The doctor also spoke about the advantages of antibodies over vaccines.
"We've also got antibodies to treat rabies. We've got antibodies to treat RSV in babies. Antibodies are used to for anti-venom. So this is extremely well-established platform technology. It has the advantage," Glanville said. "You can produce antibodies much faster than you can make a vaccine. And as I'd heard you mentioned previously on all that modeling, every day counts. We're venting an incredible amount of money out of our economy and risking lives. And so you want to have a medicine as quickly as possible."
Glanville outlined the process, hoping to go toward human trial this summer.
"Our next move is we hand this off to the U.S. military, a consortium from the Gates Foundation and some private groups.
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I was thinking more along the lines of using graphene embeded with Silver Nanoparticles to make a filter not something taken internally. A reusable antiviral filter you could wash with hot water - lots of different ways one can exploit the materials and fabrication process to filter out the pathogen I theorize
“I was thinking more along the lines of using graphene embeded with Silver Nanoparticles to make a filter not something taken internally.”
oops. sorry. interesting idea ... one trick would be to keep the silver in the filter ... another would would be to keep the filter from clogging up or being poisoned ...
RO filters are first preceded with a particle filter to filter out the physical gunk, and then followed by one or two carbon block filters that take out the chlorine and other chemicals that would poison the RO membrane itself; the RO filter in turn is kept clean of the molecular crap that it filters out by a continuous backwash, that in effect is dumped as waste water. a good RO filter actually filters out dissolved minerals and anything larger than that, including viruses, bacteria and parasites ...
it’s also possible to add a post-RO-membrane UV unit to blast the water with high-flux UV light to kill anything that might get through the RO membrane ...
This guy is planning to work with Gates to develop this medicine. In the meantime Gates is hot to add the mark of the beast to vaccines so they can track those with no vaccine for Chronavirus.
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