Biomaterials and nanotechnology could help lead to virus-fighting surfaces ANI | Updated: Feb 09, 2021 22:19 IST
Washington [US], February 9 (ANI): Scientists are working toward advances in the fields of biomaterials and nanotechnology that could lead to big breakthroughs in the fight against dangerous viruses like the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 by making hospital beds or doorknobs naturally destroy these viruses.
In APL Bioengineering, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the Indian Institute of Science describe two possibilities being explored by scientists in the field to make vaccines more effective and build surfaces that could fight and kill viruses on their own. It is important not just in terms of COVID, said author Kaushik Chatterjee. We ve seen SARS, and MERS, and Ebola, and a lot of other viral infections that have come and gone. COVID has, of course, taken a different turn altogether. Here, we wanted to see how biom