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Covid 19 Drug Discovery is beginning...

"Battles are won in the lane but wars in the laboratory."  Study Italy-Usa-Canada.  Selected three antibodies capable of neutralizing Sars-Cov-2.  Interview with Giuseppe Novelli.  Researchers from the Trac center in Canada, in collaboration with the University of Boston and Rome Tor Vergata, selected three highly neutralizing antibodies against Sars-Cov-2.  The first results in vitro and on animals are encouraging, perhaps in a few months we will move on to clinical trials of what could be a highly specific drug for Covid-19.  "If it were produced this would be a specific drug against the virus, and for now there are none"  The answer is in the antibodies.  Antibodies are the specific molecules that our immune system produces to fight a pathogen in the course of the disease, they are the proteins that, in the long run, even after healing, protect against a second infection and are the same that vaccines do  produce to the immune sys...