A spray against the cold

The most widespread disease in the world can be defeated through a spray that will take advantage of the antibodies and the protein Trim 21, through which it will recover within a few hours.

A team of researchers from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge has discovered a way to beat the cold. It has been found, in fact, that the immune system is able to destroy the cold virus: antibodies would be able to get along with the virus inside the cell and once inside to destroy, along with another protein, virus in a very limited time.

Dr. James Leo, coordinator of the young research group whose data were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, added: “Once the immune defense mechanism came into action, the virus is eliminated in space an hour or two: it is a very fast “.

The molecule involved in this process is the protein Trim 21 and working on it in the future you should be able to create a product, a nasal spray, able to eradicate the common cold, but not all: in fact, the discovery that antibodies are effective on even after the virus enters the cell, can also be used to create medicines for gastroenteritis.