{"id":146456,"date":"2014-02-08T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=146456"},"modified":"2014-04-08T17:40:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:40:55","slug":"antiviral-trap-zero-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/antiviral-trap-zero-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiviral trap in zero gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-146458\" alt=\"Tecnociencias anti-viral\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias-anti-viral.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias-anti-viral.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias-anti-viral-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Tecnociencias-anti-viral-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">daniel bueno<\/span>An antiviral platform developed by Israeli scientists, which leads viruses to commit &#8220;suicide,&#8221; will be tested during the next NASA space mission.\u00a0 The innovation, developed by the company Vecoy Nanomedicine, was one of eight selected from 1,200 applicants from around the world to be taken into space.\u00a0 The competition was organized by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis), the research arm of the International Space Station (ISS).\u00a0 The difference between Vecoy&#8217;s antiviral &#8220;trap&#8221; and traditional vaccines is that it will lead the virus to self-destruct before it reaches healthy cells.\u00a0 The Israeli researchers believe that the platform could be used to combat epidemic threats like Ebola, hepatitis and even HIV in the future.\u00a0 The experiments in a zero gravity environment will help Israeli scientists refine the design of the platform at the nanometric scale.\u00a0 Currently, Vecoy is testing the anti-viral infection technology in shrimp and crabs.\u00a0 Another technology selected is a portable ultrasound device for measuring intracranial pressure in patients with cranioencephalic trauma.\u00a0 It was developed by Neural Analytics, in the United States.\u00a0 The experiment will compare measurements made on the brains of astronauts with data from trauma patients.\u00a0 The US company Quad wants to use the microgravity test to improve its technology for isolating specific types of cells in blood that are related to cancer cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Platform which lead virus to suicide will be tested in space","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247,249],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-146456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine","tag-nanotechnology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146456"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=146456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}