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NanoViricides - new class of anti-viral drug
www.nanoviricides.com
"A typical nanoviricides drug is designed like a chemical "missile." It has a number of recognition "ligands" on its surface, that are specific to a single type of virus, say HIV. They are like the "GPS on a guided missile." The ligands are designed to identify the viral intruder and attach to specific "landing sites" on the surface of the virus particle.
The nanoviricides drug, after landing, spreads itself all over the virus particle, and thus completely neutralizes and disables the virus particle from binding to its target, a human cell.
This is the magic of the flexible TheraCour nanomaterials. Hard sphere nanomaterials such as dendritic materials, nanogold shells, silica, gold or titanium nanospheres, polymeric particles, etc., cannot do this.
Completely neutralizing and disabling the virus particle is more than the best of today's drugs do. FluCide-I, our first generation drug, is designed to do just that.
Our second generation drugs will do even more. These will be designed like "Trojan horses." After landing on the virus particle, as the nanoviricide spreads itself onto the virus surface, it will inject a chemical that will seek the viral genome and chop it into pieces. TheraCour technology has the encapsulation ability that enables such Trojan Horse attacks. "
"A typical nanoviricides drug is designed like a chemical "missile." It has a number of recognition "ligands" on its surface, that are specific to a single type of virus, say HIV. They are like the "GPS on a guided missile." The ligands are designed to identify the viral intruder and attach to specific "landing sites" on the surface of the virus particle.
The nanoviricides drug, after landing, spreads itself all over the virus particle, and thus completely neutralizes and disables the virus particle from binding to its target, a human cell.
This is the magic of the flexible TheraCour nanomaterials. Hard sphere nanomaterials such as dendritic materials, nanogold shells, silica, gold or titanium nanospheres, polymeric particles, etc., cannot do this.
Completely neutralizing and disabling the virus particle is more than the best of today's drugs do. FluCide-I, our first generation drug, is designed to do just that.
Our second generation drugs will do even more. These will be designed like "Trojan horses." After landing on the virus particle, as the nanoviricide spreads itself onto the virus surface, it will inject a chemical that will seek the viral genome and chop it into pieces. TheraCour technology has the encapsulation ability that enables such Trojan Horse attacks. "
No. Riba has been around for a long time. That is not to say it is ineffective. It is pretty good at what it does. The nanoviricides are an entirely new technology not yet in general use. Shame because they could probably prevent bird flu from becoming a pandemic. Alas, they will also probably come too late to help me with hepC. Still good to see that mankind is making large strides in overcoming the viral threat, just as antibiotics did for bacteria, well till recently anyway .....
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dointime
Very interesting. I've read that nano-technology may well be our next big problem solver on many fronts. Look forward to learning more.
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