CORONAVIRUS - 2020

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"First quantum dots applied to living organism":
December 2, 2002

https://www.rockefeller.edu/news/3944-first-quantum-dots-applied-to-living-organism/

"Functional Carbon Quantum Dots as Medical Countermeasures to Human Coronavirus":
Published online 2019 Oct 21
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7075527/

"Coronavirus Outbreak? No Worries, Nanotechnology Is There to Help!":
2020-01-28

Recently, a group of researchers from the University of Lille, France, and Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, showed that the CQDs functionalized with boronic acid ligands interfered with the function of coronavirus’s S protein and significantly inhibited its entry into the host cells. Their studies demonstrated that the addition of these nanomaterials to the cell culture medium, before and during infection with coronavirus, considerably reduced the infection rate of the cells. Surprisingly, after one viral life cycle – which is 5.5 hours for coronavirus – a great inhibition activity was also observed at the viral replication step.

https://statnano.com/news/67483/Coronavirus-Outbreak-No-Worries-Nanotechnology-Is-There-to-Help!