COVID nasal sprays may one day prevent and treat infection. Here's where the science is up to

By Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University

We have vaccines to boost our immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We have medicines you can take at home (and in hospital) to treat COVID. Now researchers are trialling something new.

They want to develop drugs that stop the virus getting into the body in the first place. That includes nasal sprays that stop the virus attaching to cells in the nose.

Other researchers are looking at the potential for nasal sprays to stop the virus replicating in the nose, or to make the nose a hostile place to enter the body.

Here’s where the science is…

Read complete article

~	As climate change amplifies urban flooding, here’s how communities can become ‘sponge cities’

~	The National Aboriginal Hockey Championship celebrates the strength of Indigenous sporting communities

~	An outsider on the inside: how Ans Westra created New Zealand’s ‘national photo album’

~	Controversial ‘Steal from Loblaws Day’ is not just illegal — it won’t foster meaningful change

~	A ‘conservation conundrum’ – when rat control to conserve one species threatens another

~	Yes, adults can develop food allergies. Here are 4 types you need to know about

~	Martha isn’t Baby Reindeer’s biggest villain. So why is she painted as such?

~	First Nations imprisonment is already at a record high. Unless government policy changes, it will only get worse

~	War games risk stirring up troubled waters as Philippines − emboldened by US − squares up to Beijing at sea

~	Guatemala: Amnesty International condemns yet another unjustified delay in trial of prisoner of conscience Virginia Laparra