Rene Desmarais Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 ChessE4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 What does this mean? Hopefully it's a significant milestone towards a vaccine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accio7 Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 1 hour ago, twangster said: What does this mean? Hopefully it's a significant milestone towards a vaccine. From the article: Quote A team of researchers from Sunnybrook, McMaster University(opens in a new window) and the University of Toronto(opens in a new window) has isolated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the agent responsible for the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19. Thanks to nimble collaboration, the team was able to culture the virus from two clinical specimens in a Level 3 containment facility. The isolated virus will help researchers in Canada and across the world develop better diagnostic testing, treatments and vaccines, and gain a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 biology, evolution and clinical shedding. This is good news, I just applied for a job at Sunnybrook (non-medical position) Mrs. RoyalMoyal, JLMoran and Rene Desmarais 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDemuth Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 2 hours ago, twangster said: What does this mean? Hopefully it's a significant milestone towards a vaccine. This is strange since the CDC has been culturing SARS-CoV-2 for over a month to provide samples to the research community. Isolating the virus is not new information. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/about/grows-virus-cell-culture.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheJones Posted March 13, 2020 Report Share Posted March 13, 2020 Hockey gets shutdown for 6 hours - Canada solves Coronavirus... AshleyDillo, Lovetocruise2002, Chadster and 7 others 2 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 Greffex, Inc. Completes COVID-19 Vaccine and Prepares for Testing https://www.prweb.com/releases/greffex_inc_completes_covid_19_vaccine_and_prepares_for_testing/prweb16971219.htm Quote Greffex, Inc., a leading genetic engineering company, revealed its completion of a Covid-19 vaccine and is ready to move on to animal testing as required by the U.S. government Food and Drug Administration. Ogilthorpe, accio7, JLMoran and 2 others 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambia-Zaire Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 Interesting Note: Base on an estimated World Population of 7.5 Billion people. .002% of the world population is infected with Covid19 .00008% has died from it. accio7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLMoran Posted March 15, 2020 Report Share Posted March 15, 2020 7 hours ago, Matt said: Greffex, Inc. Completes COVID-19 Vaccine and Prepares for Testing https://www.prweb.com/releases/greffex_inc_completes_covid_19_vaccine_and_prepares_for_testing/prweb16971219.htm That's... stunningly fast, if accurate. Of note, though, is this line: Quote Greffex did not use a living or killed virus for its vaccine and instead used an adenovirus-based vector vaccine, which are genetically engineered. Now, it's been a long time since I studied this stuff in college, but my recollection is that this kind of vaccine works by injecting a genetically modified virus (the adenovirus) that has been designed to produce some protein that's in the target (Covid-19) virus' outer shell; this is the only part of the virus an immune cell would come into contact with when the virus is outside of infected human cells, and the only part that could act as a trigger for immune response. For easy reference, here's the picture of the virus that everyone's been using in any article about it; obviously it's more of a conceptual picture, but the big red triangular bumps in this picture are likely the target protein being used as the marker. But proteins are funny things. They change shape and fold differently depending on what other proteins are around them, and if the protein is made by itself with nothing else around it then it might have a different shape than what you see in the picture above. So this vaccine may work as intended, but we'll have to wait and see how the animal trials go. It could be that it just helps to make a later infection milder, similar to flu vaccine, rather than providing full immunity to the virus. Even that would be an improvement, for sure, and I certainly hope it confers full immunity. But let's definitely wait and see whether the FDA makes another announcement of human trials commencing in another few months. Even fast-tracked, that's probably the fastest we'll see the FDA approve the start of human trials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambia-Zaire Posted March 16, 2020 Report Share Posted March 16, 2020 23 hours ago, Zambia-Zaire said: Interesting Note: Base on an estimated World Population of 7.5 Billion people. .002% of the world population is infected with Covid19 .00008% has died from it. Well @accio7 I know you was just reacting to my post; but, consider this as well. According to the World Health Organization, 56 million people die each year(health, disease, murder, accident, old age, war, suicide, etc), which is an average of about 153,424 people each day...which is close to the total number of people said to be infected with Covid19. accio7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.