{"id":20232,"date":"2022-10-21T20:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=20232"},"modified":"2022-10-21T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:55:33","slug":"osu-researcher-develops-possible-new-universal-covid-19-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2022\/10\/21\/osu-researcher-develops-possible-new-universal-covid-19-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU researcher develops possible new \u2018universal\u2019 COVID-19 treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/coronavirus-covid.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>Author: Alma McCarty (KGW)<\/h6>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) \u2014 Building on years of research prior to the pandemic, medicine and technology advanced under the pressures of COVID-19. Now, new research from Oregon State University (OSU) could be a \u201cuniversal\u201d means of treating the virus \u2014 while also aiding in the fight against other illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a transformative time,\u201d said Gaurav Sahay, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at OSU. \u201cAs much as COVID has been a terrible time, what it has led to are these new technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to OSU, Sahay and collaborators at OSU and the Texas Biomedical Research Institute demonstrated in a mouse model that it\u2019s possible to prompt the production of a protein that can block multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering cells and causing respiratory disease.<\/p>\n<p>His team\u2019s work is twofold.<\/p>\n<p>First, they\u2019ve found a way to block multiple COVID variants. It works by introducing so-called \u201cdecoy\u201d enzymes to the body which bind to the coronavirus spike proteins and prevent the virus from latching onto healthy cells in the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Second, they\u2019ve transformed the way they\u2019re delivering this nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to deliver this mRNA technology is to encapsulate them in a packaging carrier called a lipid nanoparticle,\u201d Sahay said. \u201cUsually they are given intramuscularly \u2026 but these can be aerosolized so you can take them through nasal administration or nebulization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published in Advanced Science. Sahay said we could be a ways away from the treatment being available to human patients, although the results from animal models are promising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the animal models, we have seen that this protein starts to form after an injection in about two hours. It\u2019s pretty rapid,\u201d Sahay said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Alma McCarty (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) \u2014 Building on years of research prior to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20235,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20232\/revisions\/20235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}