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n95 mask daraz online, Jason S. McLellan, associate professor of molecular biosciences at UT Austin, talks about his team’s recent breakthrough in studying the coronavirus, and how much closer we are to finding a cure. Researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the University of Texas at Austin claimed to have made a breakthrough in their coronavirus research on Wednesday and said their data could help develop a vaccine. Scientists were able to create a 3D atomic-scale map of the part of the virus that attaches itself to human cells and causes infection, according to UT News. Mapping what researchers call the spike protein is a vital step toward developing vaccines and antiviral drugs.
n95 mask daraz online - Jason McLellan, an associate professor at UT Austin, spoke with Fox News on Thursday about the virus and said researchers hope to study the 3D map, in an effort to develop antibodies that can help fight the disease. What we've been able to do is produce the molecule that's on the surface of the coronavirus in our lab. So the surface of the virus contains these spike molecules that sort of resemble mushrooms and they use these molecules to bind to our cells and then cause the virus to enter the cells, he said.
n95 mask daraz online, So we really want to target these spikes to prevent their function and prevent the virus from getting into our cell, McLellan continued. We were able to produce large quantities of these spikes in our lab and then using cryo-electron microscopy, determined a three-dimensional map of these spike molecules. With that information, we and others around the world will begin to apply rational engineering approaches to create small molecules, antibodies in vaccines that target the spike and hopefully prevent the function of this molecule
n95 mask daraz online - HOW DANGEROUS IS CORONAVIRUS? He echoed the NIH's hope to have a vaccine developed within 18 months but said it could end up taking over two years to crack the code. Optimistically a vaccine could be created in 18 to 24 months, McLellan said. But this would still be extremely rapid compared to the one to two decades it normally takes, to make most vaccines. It's possible that the small molecules might be able to move quicker. There are some small molecules that have efficacy against other coronaviruses that may also work against this new coronavirus.
n95 mask daraz online - So it's really a multi-pronged approach, he explained. Vaccines could be ideal because you can treat [people]. You can vaccinate everybody before they're infected and then hopefully provide immunity to the virus. One of the advantages we have is that we've been working on coronaviruses in general for the last five to six years. McLellan also called for increased government funding to prep for possible outbreaks in the future, so that researchers are not caught flat-footed when the next threat appears.