Four ways to defeat Corona Virus

4 Methods to defeat Corona Virus

Corona virus can be defeated by four different ways.

1-Potent Vaccine

The first way is to develop a potent Vaccine against Corona.The vaccine would induce the body's immune system to fight the virus. And produce antibodies that stay in bloodstream for life. But developing a vaccine under normal circumstances can take several years. As researchers must study the virus bit by bit in a detailed manner. Then choose a small harmless fragment of virus to use as a vaccine.In some cases they choose a fragment of virus and deactivate with chemicals.

2-Designing a drug

Designing a drug that kills the virus and its host cell. the virus enters the human body, it starts to make copies of itself. Then it destroys the cell and releases new copies to infect new cells. The drug would prevent the virus from replicating. But this means the virus would remain dormant without any activity inside human cells.During which it could mutate and come up with even a more aggressive version of itself.The drug could also force the infected cell to kill itself by apoptosis.(Apoptosis is a process in which cell releases molecules that eat it from the inside.)Immune cells called phagocytes then come in and ingest cellular components. Developing such drug normally takes 14 years of research, development and testing. This makes this an unlikely solution to the ongoing global network.

3- Testing Existing Drugs

The third method involves testing existing drugs to see which one could work against virus. Viruses in general share similarities in genome, some of them can be as high as 90% which means existing drugs for other viruses such as influenza or HIV could solve the problem and help contain spread of virus. Such drugs would target the same sites or block the same processes in viral replication. Current reports show that anti-HIV drugs are being re-purposed to fight corona virus 

4-Genetic Engineering

The fourth method involves genetically engineering human T-cell using CRISPR. Then injecting the genetically engineered cells into human body. The T-cell are engineered to become more potent in recognizing and killing infected cells. Genetically engineered T-cells must be made separately and differently for each person. Because our genomes are slightly different,the engineered T-cells won't work on everyone. which means everyone infected must have his/her own genetically engineered cells.But this can't be done foreseeing how fast the outbreak is spreading.

For the moment,our only hope is that a vaccine is developed fast enough to contain he disease or an existing drug be re-purposed to block the virus from spreading further.

via Hashem Al-Ghaili

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