Scientists In China Believe New Drug Can Stop Pandemic ‘Without Vaccine’
This photo taken on February 6, 2020 shows a laboratory technician working on samples from people to be tested for the new coronavirus at “Fire Eye” laboratory in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. STR / AFP.A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.
Sunney Xie, director of the university’s Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics, told AFP that the drug has been successful at the animal testing stage. “Our expertise is single-cell genomics rather than immunology or virology. When we realised that the single-cell genomic approach can effectively find the neutralising antibody we were thrilled.”
“The hope is these neutralised antibodies can become a specialised drug that would stop the pandemic,” he said. “However, it is limited in supply,” Xie said, noting that the 14 neutralising antibodies used in their drug could be put into mass production quickly.Using antibodies in drug treatments is not a new approach, and it has been successful in treating several other viruses such as HIV, Ebola and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome .
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