Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping

Re:Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by toytoyr on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:16AM (#28221202)

What happens to the millions of traps floating inside a person's bloodstream after they do their job? Do they eventually get dismantled by the immune system?

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Re:Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by tmikaeld on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @10:43AM (#28221645)

Maybe? It's formulated really badly, you don't know if they mean the virus or the traps...

"Subsequent in vivo (within a living organism) testing on mice showed the DNA-origami traps were capable of targeting individual virions inside the body, disarming them without disrupting bodily functions, and finally destroying them with natural immunological mechanisms."

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Re:Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by rolph on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @01:23PM (#28224410)

free floating DNA is a pathogenic state of affairs and will be phagocytosed, the aptamer/virion complex will be shredded and the molecular debris is incorporated into antigen presenting complex initiating development of immunity

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Re:Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by Firehawke on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @11:36PM (#28230074)

I would assume that with the rate the human body replaces blood they'd end up getting removed over time.

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Re:Programmable icosahedral shell system for virus trapping by sjg007 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:21PM (#28223453)

DNA and RNA get degraded all the time..

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