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A sea sponge, a weapon against Covid-19

2023-01-09T16:36:57.541Z


Researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada, have identified a sponge species and two bacteria capable of avoiding


Some 64 million Covid-19 infections and 6.6 million deaths for almost three years… What if the end of the pandemic was in the depths of the sea?

Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, have found that a sea sponge and two bacteria prevent infection of human cells with Covid-19.

This advance would allow the development of new drugs from natural sources.

At present, only the antiviral Paxlovid, the result of an assembly of two chemical molecules, developed by Pfizer, is authorized on the French market.

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Source: leparis

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