Vaccines aren’t the best at protecting against virus variants because they focus on a specific strain. According to a recent Medgadget article, a team of researchers at Northwestern University has a new strategy to fight the virus that is unlikely to be affected by changes in future variants. They discovered natural extracellular vesicles in the blood that act as a decoy binding site for viral particles and prevent them from binding to and infecting cells.
Anti-COVID Nanobubbles Block the Virus from Infecting Cells
The team behind the discovery hopes to develop the nanostructures into a nasal spray therapeutic to fight COVID-19.
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