• Question: Is it possible to develope a medicine that evolves with the virus?

    Asked by bengray10d1 to Janet on 13 Mar 2013.
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      Janet Daly answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      Brilliant! Not that I know of, but if we can figure it out we could win a nobel prize. In a way, our immune systems already do this…but how to make it into a medicine? There are new technologies now that mean that it may not be impossible to take a protein from virus, mutate it into the many possible permutations and generate antibodies that could be given to people. This is not quite evolving with the virus, but not far off.

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