Maybe Some More Good Covid News - Nanotechnology Possibly to the Rescue

Mates,

Many of you will be familiar with what is called 'nanotechnology'.  The 'nano' part of it and it means 'one-billionth', which is another way of saying incredibly small.  Wiki will tell you that a nanometer is the length your fingernail grows in a second.  I will tell you that it is the amount my sympathy meter moves when I hear ohio lost a football game.  Really small.

Nanotechnology is used now in many applications including consumer electronics, automotive applications, oil and gas, you name it.  There is a growing field called 'nanomedicine'.  Without me trying to sound like Mr. Know-it-all, a good description of that is here: 

The early genesis of the concept of nanomedicine sprang from the visionary idea that tiny nanorobots and related machines could be designed, manufactured, and introduced into the human body to perform cellular repairs at the molecular level. Nanomedicine today has branched out in hundreds of different directions, each of them embodying the key insight that the ability to structure materials and devices at the molecular scale can bring enormous immediate benefits in the research and practice of medicine.

Now for the possible good news.  They say Covid-SARS-2, what we call Covid-19, is an envelope virus.  That 'envelope' is a little like a shell, making it harder to effectively penetrate with medicine.  They are working on a nano-medicine that would do two extremely important things:

1.  It would penetrate the virus envelope more quickly than other medicines and go right to work neutralizing the RNA, proteins and amino acids of the virus.

2.  They are hopeful that the nanomedicine would stay active for a longer time once taken, possibly being active for weeks or months. 

Supposedly FDA testing is in the works.  Thought a little bit of possible good news might be nice to share. 

Be safe everybody,

XM