UBC researchers find three compounds that block COVID-19 infection

[Floyd R. Turbo]

A team of researchers led by scientists at UBC has identified three compounds that can prevent COVID-19 infection in human cells.

The compounds are all from natural sources in Canada, including a sea sponge plucked from B.C.’s Howe Sound and marine bacteria from Barkley Sound.

François Jean and co-author Jimena Perez-Vargas headed an international team that investigated more than 350 compounds from natural sources such as plants, fungi and marine sponges to unlock their potential to create new antiviral drugs for use against COVID-19 and other pathogens.

“This interdisciplinary research team is unravelling the important possibilities of biodiversity and natural resources and discovering nature-based solutions for global health challenges such as COVID-19,” said senior author Jean, an associate professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of B.C.

https://vancouversun.com/health/local-health/ubc-research-compounds-block-covid-infection

[niyad]

1. Fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. 😊

[lark]

3. Good luck to them and to us! nt

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Science and research solving problems again

Without it we would still be living in caves.

[KS Toronado]

19. Yep, so true

And FQX is gearing up to find some itty bitty sliver of truth to blow up into Mt. Everest why their viewers
should ignore this research.

[BOSSHOG]

27. America First

Means we don’t take no stinking research from fereners. Just look at their names. Nothing Merkan bout them.

[KS Toronado]

32. Dead on

[lindysalsagal]

33. How long till the church claims credit from prayers or godly intervention?

They never ask why God created and spread disease, but he always steals the credit from the scientists and docs who resolve the problem.

[ananda]

5. Wow. Good news.

Like

[geardaddy]

6. good news!

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Don't read the comments below the article though. They're full of anti-vax bullshit.

[womanofthehills]

14. I didn't see this in the article

What are you referring too?

[geardaddy]

15. Not in the actual article, but in the comments below.

There are comments about how the vaccine is more dangerous than Covid itself.

[SergeStorms]

20. It's hard to imagine....

anything worse than dying from COVID.

Maybe having Fox Noise played on a continuous loop 24/7/365. I think I'd pray for death if that happened.

[Wounded Bear]

7. K & R...nt

[MontanaMama]

8. Kicking for visibility.

Wonderful article. Makes me hopeful.

[Victor_c3]

9. So are these in your urine or not?

Remember some of the antivax republicans were touting drinking your own urine as a way to prevent/cure covid?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/01/10/vaccine-police-founder-claims-drinking-your-own-urine-is-covid-19-antidote/amp/

[Pinback]

12. First you have to eat a sponge

soaked in mushroom juice, then wait a couple of hours and then drink your urine. Of course Big Science will tell you this is wrong.

[Victor_c3]

13. Thanks for the clarification, much appreciated n/t

[progressoid]

22. Aged urine. That's the key to good health.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8024035/Man-drinks-two-week-old-urine-day-claims-cured-depression.html

(to be clear, I'm not endorsing such stupidity)

[Pinback]

24. Had to check the date on the story.

Not April 1st!

No mention of this guy’s relationship status in the article. Might be a wee bit difficult to find a partner if you’re a urinophile, I imagine.

[progressoid]

25. Wee bit!

There are a lot of facebook etc groups full of these people. It's mind boggling what they think it does.

I can't imagine the smell in their house/apartment.

[Probatim]

26. Used to be you drank your piss in shame and silence...

Now you've got a whole community with whom to share tips and commune.

Thanks Social Media!

[jaxexpat]

10. One would expect anti-pathogens to develop...

In creatures that have evolved to survive the ocean's bottoms. That's where all the Earth's sewage gets treated. Millions of years of nothing but sewer rain either kills you or makes you strong.

[SheltieLover]

11. Really great news!

Thx for posting!

[Baitball Blogger]

16. So, in 100 years we'll all look like the crew of the Flying Dutchmen from

Pirates of the Caribbean.

[appalachiablue]

29. +1

[Red Pest]

17. For those who want to read the actual publication/research article, I have the link below

Link to the actual research publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.antiviral.2022.105484

This describes the methods used and the presents all the authors' data. It is a nice piece of work. Remember that they pretreated all their lung cell cultures with the various candidate anti-virals before challenging them with various strains of SARS-CoV-2. Note also that the three top natural products (bafilomycin D, alotaketal C, and holyrine A) were not only highly effective at sub-micromolar concentrations, they also exhibited low toxicity towards the cultured lung cells.

Finally, this initial work is a long way from being an effective treatment.

[Stargazer99]

18. Pray this natural solution doesnot get into corporate hands

other wise you will pay through the nose for that solution

[Kennah]

21. I'm shocked it's not ivermectin, urine, and bleach

[sprinkleeninow]

28. ...

[Uncle Joe]

23. Just one more example as to why preserving bio-diversity is critical

Thanks for the thread Floyd R. Turbo

[JanMichael]

30. Plastic polymers block Covid infections too.