Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on the 8th that the team of Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, president of Kyoto Prefectural University in Japan, recently developed a mask - the new crown pneumonia virus on the mask can emit ultraviolet light under the illumination of black lights.
The mask contains an "ostrich antibody" inside, which binds to the virus to produce proteins that cannot exert toxicity. Due to the ostrich's ability to produce various types of antibodies, the team successfully extracted a large number of antibodies from ostrich eggs after injecting the female ostrich with live coronavirus.
Tsukamoto's team has developed a special filter layer that can infiltrate ostrich antibodies, and also made ostrich antibodies with fluorescent pigments attached. The specific detection method is: the user wears a mask, if infected with the new crown virus, then the antibodies on the filter layer will bind to the virus; after disinfecting the mask, the filter layer is removed and sprayed with antibodies attached to the fluorescent pigment in a spray manner; the fluorescent pigment only remains around the new crown virus, and the use of black light to illuminate the light.
Tsukamoto's team is currently advancing practical research, and if approved by the Japanese government, the mask is expected to be released next year. Tsukamoto said, "Ostrich antibodies are less expensive and can be mass-produced. It is expected that this mask will become a convenient and fast detection method in the future. ”
(Original title: Quick Detection!) The Japanese team used "ostrich antibodies" to make fluorescent masks, which are expected to be released next year)
Source: Global Times
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