{"id":212825,"date":"2020-03-14T00:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=212825"},"modified":"2020-03-14T00:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:44:40","slug":"dutch-researchers-find-corona-virus-antibody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/dutch-researchers-find-corona-virus-antibody\/","title":{"rendered":"[UPDATE] ‘Corona medicine based on Dutch antibody will be there within six months’"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update] The discovery of an antibody against Covid-19 was a world first at Erasmus MC and Utrecht University. The scientific publication, which was recently published<\/a> in the leading journal Nature, will lead to a medicine within six months, says researcher Frank Grosveld. An as yet unknown American pharmacist will produce the drug.<\/p>\n

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A world premiere for Erasmus MC and Utrecht University. Researchers from the two universities have discovered an antibody against COVID-19. The scientific paper from the group of ten scientists is now ready for peer reviews from the leading professional journal Nature. The Rotterdam university journal – Erasmus Magazine<\/a> – first reported the sensational news.<\/p>\n

According to one of the people who identified it, the antibody that blocks the infection of SARS1 and SARS2 was already briefly lain in the fridge at the Erasmus MC<\/a> in Rotterdam. Professor of Cell Biology Frank Grosveld<\/a> (71) is part of a team of ten scientists. He posted the article about the discovery to BioRxiv<\/a> last Thursday. BioRxiv is a website where biologists can publish their research before it has been peer-reviewed by a professional journal. The summary talks about an antibody against SARS2, the coronavirus that is causing the current pandemic (COVID-19). The antibody may help detect and prevent this form of Corona infection. This would, therefore, make the active antibody a world premiere.<\/p>\n

Very first antibody<\/h3>\n

The antibody still has to be tested on human beings and this will take a few months. Yet Grosveld is hopeful, according to Erasmus Magazine: “We are now trying to get a pharmaceutical company on board – that’s looking good, by the way – which can mass-produce the antibody as a medicine on a large scale. This is the very first antibody that we know of that will block the infection. And there is a good chance that this will also become a medicine that reaches the market. If this is taken by a patient, then it is expected that the infection can be stopped in that patient. So, the patient will have a chance of recovery.”<\/p>\n

In the article, Grosveld has responded critically to the Dutch approach to the Corona pandemic. “We have been too lax and were ill-prepared. For example, there were too few tests and too few restrictions from the outset, even though we saw what happened in China and then Italy.”<\/p>\n

Read more on innovations in the fight against the coronavirus here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update] The discovery of an antibody against Covid-19 was a world first at Erasmus MC and Utrecht University. The scientific publication, which was recently published in the leading journal Nature, will lead to a medicine within six months, says researcher Frank Grosveld. An as yet unknown American pharmacist will produce the drug. [Below the original […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1594,"featured_media":517077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34665],"tags":[46597,46609,48127,38767,48577],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-212825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-corona-innnovations","tag-corona-virus","tag-covid-19","tag-erasmus-university","tag-utrecht-university"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"IO Eindhoven","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/redactie-e52\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/vaccine-4892048_1920-300x153.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Health<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Health<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["corona innnovations<\/a>","corona virus<\/a>","COVID-19<\/a>","Erasmus University<\/a>","Utrecht University<\/a>"],"unlinked":["corona innnovations<\/span>","corona virus<\/span>","COVID-19<\/span>","Erasmus University<\/span>","Utrecht University<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on March 14, 2020","modified":"Updated on March 14, 2020"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on March 14, 2020 12:44 am","modified":"Updated on March 14, 2020 12:44 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=212825"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=212825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}