SciShow: How to Fight COVID-19... with a Virus

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Content of the Lesson: When it comes to fighting COVID-19, scientists are throwing every bit of science we’ve got at it. A creative technique some researchers are looking into involves using gene therapy to fight this virus with… another virus! Hosted by: Michael Aranda COVID-19 News &Updates playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsNB4peY6C6IQediwz2GzMTNvm_dMzr47 SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: What is gene therapy? https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/therapy/genetherapy https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/what-gene-therapy-how-does-it-work Convalescent plasma https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/investigational-new-drug-ind-or-device-exemption-ide-process-cber/recommendations-investigational-covid-19-convalescent-plasma mRNA vaccine overview (2018) https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243 https://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-family/molecular-therapy/pdf/S1525-0016(19)30041-3.pdf http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/rna-vaccines-a-novel-technology-to-prevent-and-treat-disease/ Frontiers AAV (2020) https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00658/full#B189 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200424081706.htm Mass Eye and Ear https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200424081706.htm https://eye.hms.harvard.edu/news/harvard-ophthalmology-advancing-novel-experimental-gene-based-covid-19-vaccine-aavcovid Adoptive T cell therapy background https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4327320/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_vaccine_development_process_typically_takes_10_to_15_years_under_a_traditional_timeline._Multiple_regulatory_pathways,_such_as_Emergency_Use_Authorization,_can_be_used_to_facilitate_bringing_a_vaccine_for_COVID-19_to_(49948301848).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antibody.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Difference_DNA_RNA-EN.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adeno-associated_virus_serotype_AAV2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AAV2_Ribbon_Diagram.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adeno-associated_viruses.jpg


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