CoronavirusCurrent trends in nanotechnology promise to make virus uses more diverse. From the point of view of materialists, viruses can be considered as nanoparticles. On its surface, viruses carry special tools designed to cross the host cell barriers. Viruses are commonly used in material science as scaffolds to contribute to associated surface modifications. There is a certain type of virus that can be designed from directed development. The powerful technologies developed by biology have become the basis of engineering methods toward nanomaterials, and have opened up wide areas of applications to biology and medicine. Because of their size and shape, as well as their specific chemical structures, viruses have been used as templates for organizing materials on the nanoscale. Recent examples include working at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., cowpea virus particles have been used to amplify signals in micro-DNA array sensors. In this application, the virus molecules separate the fluorescent pigments used to indicate blocking the formation of non-fluorescent diodes that act as dampers. Another example is the use of the cowpea virus as a nanoscale plate for molecular electronics. Is it possible for material science researchers to prepare nanocomposites that can interact with the Corona virus so that they can break down the virus into their primary compounds?
Can you use it as a sensor?! There are reports on nanomaterials sensors! Check them out, if you wish.
Dear all, when dealing with human being the use of nanomaterials inside the body is the subject of severe précautions and restrictions. Fighting viruses with nanomaterials is an area of pluridisciplinary science. Viruses and especially corona ones are made by a single strand RNA and evelopen of proteins which in other words polymers or more precisely biopolymers, thus polymers scientists and researcher should be at the front of this battle. In addition to that, I am personaly convinced that biomimetic science should give fast and efficient tools to accelerate research to find solutions to the deseases problems. My Regards
I would like to add the following, usually when we talk about proteins, people are mostly focusing on amino acids with carboxylic acid functionality. How about those with sulfonic acid ones. I would like to bring your attention and only as an exemple to 'taurine'. It is a biocompatible compound with an extreme importance and vital for the normal function of some organs and for signal transmitance. This type of amino acids have something to do with the fight against viruses. I will not be ready for additional information. My Regards
If outside the body, many photocatalysts can reduce them to carbon dioxide and water (though it takes more time than people usually think, as they're used to photobleaching of dyes in this kind of experiment instead of mineralization). That are other nanoparticles, like bimetalics alloys that can reduce a lot of functional groups (nitrates, halides, double bonds).. But just separate the proteins of the virus and its nucleic acid (considering them the base blocks for building a virus, as I'm not sure on what you're calling primary compounds), I can't see a mechanism for that, and I don't know a nanoparticle to introduce into someone's blood in order to destroy the virus in vivo.
It would be great, but there are some restrictions to determine this perilous virus. I believe-at first we have to prepare an optimistic SENSOR that can sense or recognize. Otherwise, it will be meaningless.
Understanding[1] the mechanisms[2] used by CoVs (Coronaviruses) to delay IFN (type I interferon) signaling may provide opportunities for the development of antivirals and live-attenuated vaccines to limit CoV infections.
1. DNA Diagnostics: Nanotechnology-Enhanced Electrochemical Detection of Nucleic Acids https://www.nature.com/articles/pr201085
2. Coronavirus endoribonuclease targets viral polyuridine sequences to evade activating host sensors https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/20/1921485117
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