Light up, from the inside
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 11:57 last edited by
Scientists in Russia are developing a treatment for coronavirus that uses ultraviolet (UV) light to disinfect the body from the inside, Andrei Goverdovsky, from state nuclear agency Rosatom, has said.
In an interview with Country Rosatom, the agency's newsletter, Goverdovsky said physicists at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) are currently developing methods to combat viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19. He said they have called the project "luminous gas."
"So far, no one has managed to hold UV disinfection inside a person," he said. "We figured out how to do this. We select molecules and gas components that when inhaled remain activated and emit ultraviolet light directly in the lungs. We hope that in addition to coronavirus, our method [can be used to] treat tuberculosis, oncology and other diseases."
Further details on how the technique works and what tests had been carried out as part of the project were not available.
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 11:58 last edited by
Can't be anything to it. Trump, disinfectants and all...
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 11:59 last edited by
I get UV 'killing' the feral form of the virus, but how would that help once it's inside the cell?
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 12:01 last edited by
Here's the most important line from the article: "Further details on how the technique works and what tests had been carried out as part of the project were not available."
We've seen lots of Russian claims about all kinds of breakthroughs that end up being nothing more than vaporware.
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 12:09 last edited by
Not just Russia. I mean, they invented baseball and all, but still.
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wrote on 5 Jun 2020, 12:09 last edited by
Speaking of bogus pronouncements, what's up with the NORKs?