Land Rover tax for biggest most polluting vehicles is being considered by Cardiff council who are considering plans to charge people who own larger cars more to park in the city and plans to ban vehicles over a certain size from applying for any permit to park in restricted areas. Cars which are highly polluting […]
Cardiff and it’s Bay
Did you have Covid-19 before the main outbreak in February 2020?
Did you have Covid-19 before? If you think you may have had Covid-19 earlier than most it is of course entirely possible, even going back to January of this year, prior to that though you may well have encountered a different virus but of the same coronavirus family. Given the evidence that even if we […]
Data centre in Tremorfa – world’s biggest batteries.
The data centre element of the scheme, which Latos is responsible for will be powered by one of the world’s biggest batteries. Work on a project which will see built in Cardiff has begun, one of the firms behind it has announced. Latos Ltd and other companies, including PCG Ltd and TEP Ltd, were recently […]
Understanding how antiviral drugs work
Understanding how antiviral drugs work is extremely frustrating and not easy to understand, for an existing antiviral its not so bad as the pathways to synthesise the drug are already in place. However, new drugs are a bit different. These drugs are very complex molecules. This is basically how drugs work. The drug shown here […]
Major Vaccine Types and Their Manufacturers
Major Vaccine Types and their manufacturers include a least seven teams are developing vaccines using the virus itself, in a weakened or inactivated form. Many existing vaccines are made in this way, such as those against measles and polio, but they require extensive safety testing. Sinovac Biotech in Beijing has started to test an inactivated […]
Immunity, T-cells, Antibodies and the numbers game.
Immunity, so what do we know about immunity? Basically it is provided by both T-cells and Antibodies combined. It revolves around the T helper cells (CD4) and their ability to recognise viruses, some recognise viruses in general some corona viruses and some virus specific T cells recognise a particular virus. (VST). These are used in […]
T-cells – Unappreciated Coronavirus warriors.
T-cells, it is now becoming clear that the issue of immunity from Covid-19, the disease that is caused by coronavirus infection, is not only conferred by antibodies arising from infection but also by other components of the immune system specifically T cells. Checking for the presence of antibodies currently is both easy and quick. Deriving […]
Multiple coronavirus vaccines do we need them?
Multiple coronavirus vaccines do we need them all? There is a great deal we don’t yet fully understand about how the coronavirus attacks the human body but we have established that the quest for a vaccine is a high priority. In recent times that development and trials of the vaccine in the UK led by […]
Decline of Covid-19 Cases? DOCC theory.
Decline of Covid-19 Cases (DOCC theory) Follows on from our previous discussion about T-cells Do Some Of Us Have Better Defences Against Covid-19 Than We Thought? There are two significant factors that affect the final outcome of a Covid-19 infection. We know that the severity of the infection is affected by the amount of virus infecting […]
Defences against Covid-19 – Do some of us have better protection
Defences against Covid-19 – Do some of us have better protection? This article expands on a post on Twitter by Professor Karol Sikora an oncologist. The article he is referring to is this one in the Journal Cell. The paper talks about T cells in our blood which are part of our immune response. We don’t […]