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What happens to the millions of traps floating inside a person's bloodstream after they do their job? Do they eventually get dismantled by the immune system?
by toytoyr 5y ago
What happens to the millions of traps floating inside a person's bloodstream after they do their job? Do they eventually get dismantled by the immune system?
- tmikaeld 5y agoMaybe? It's formulated really badly, you don't know if they mean the virus or the traps... "Subsequent in vivo (within a living organism) testing on mice showed the DNA-origami traps were capable of targeting individual virions inside the body, disarming them without disrupting bodily functions, and finally destroying them with natural immunological mechanisms."
- sjg007 5y agoDNA and RNA get degraded all the time..
- rolph 5y agofree floating DNA is a pathogenic state of affairs and will be phagocytosed, the aptamer/virion complex will be shredded and the molecular debris is incorporated into antigen presenting complex initiating development of immunity
- Firehawke 5y agoI would assume that with the rate the human body replaces blood they'd end up getting removed over time.