# RPI says Seaweed Extract Outperforming Drugs in Blocking COVID-19 Virus!

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/11/rpi-says-seaweed-extract-outperforming-drugs-in-blocking-covid-19-virus/
- Published: 2020-11-25T23:40:40-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

July 23, 2020 

### RPI in Upstate NY **did** In Cell Studies on Seaweed Extract**.** Well, It Outperforms Remdesivir in Blocking COVID-19 Virus

Because Heparin is a common anticoagulant**.** Now it could also form basis of a
viral trap for SARS-CoV-2

##### 󠀁[By Mary L. Martialay](https://news.rpi.edu/content/2020/07/23/cell-studies-seaweed-extract-outperforms-remdesivir-blocking-covid-19-virus)󠁿

![Well folks only in NY folks. In a test of antiviral effectiveness against the 
virus that causes COVID-19. That’s right an extract from edible seaweeds. For it’s
substantially outperforming remdesivir. That’s the current standard antiviral used
to combat the disease. 
Heparin is a common blood thinner. It’s a heparin variant
stripped of its anticoagulant properties. So it performed on par with remdesivir
in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in mammalian cells. So I say: BAM BAM BAM BAM
BAM and that’s a Flintstone’s Reference!!](https://i0.wp.com/news.rpi.edu/sites/
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Well folks only in NY. In a test of antiviral effectiveness against the virus that
causes COVID-19. That’s right an extract from edible seaweeds. For it’s substantially
outperforming remdesivir. That’s the current standard antiviral used. All to combat
the disease.

#### Heparin is a common blood thinner.

In addition, It’s a heparin variant. One that’s stripped of its anticoagulant properties.
So it performed on par with remdesivir. All in inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 infection in
mammalian cells. So I say: BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM and that’s a Flintstone’s Reference!!

Published [in _Cell Discovery_](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-00192-8);
for that’s the research document amen. It’s also the latest example of a decoy strategy
from nasty crap is what they want to say. Yet I’ll do it. Thanks RPI. Appreciate
it!

So researchers from the [Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm_O0FqYSt4)(
CBIS) at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute are developing against viruses like the
novel coronavirus that spawned the current global health crisis.

Also, the spike protein on the surface of SARS-CoV-2. It then as a result, latches
onto the ACE-2 receptor, a molecule on the surface of human cells. Once secured,
the virus inserts its own genetic material into the cell, hijacking the cellular
machinery to produce replica viruses[viruses](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/08/how-this-pandemic-is-reshaping-the-recycling-industry/).

In conclusion and however, the virus could easily be persuaded to lock onto a decoy
molecule. One that offers a similar fit. Finally,  the neutralized virus would be
trapped and eventually degrade naturally. Again. Bam bam bam bam bam!!!!

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