Sharvari Desai Author

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Nanomedicine in Covid

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Sharvari Desai

A new extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (nCoV or SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 and quickly developed into a global pandemic, which was announced on March 2020. Though treatment options are still limited, medical and science experts have been working together to develop effective therapies that will reduce the pandemic's severity. Viruses are naturally occurring nanoparticles that run at the same metric scale as other nanomaterials. For years, the nanomedicine community has worked hard to mimic virus behaviour by creating viral-like nanoparticles that can be used for targeted therapy and gene delivery. It's not shocking, then, that nanotechnology techniques have proven to be extremely useful in the current pandemic, with applications ranging from viral neutr... view more»

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